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Abstract

The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the relationship between parenting styles and student’s delinquency in primary school in Johor Bahru. Respondent for this consisted of 130 students and a questionnaire was used as research instrument. This questionnaire contained two parts, Part A containing question related to background of respondents and Part B which containing items related to student’s delinquency and parenting styles. The acquired overall alpha value was 0.897 and possessed high trustworthiness questions. Findings showed that vandalism was the most dominant behavior for the naughtiness delinquency measure, bully was the most dominant for the physical delinquency and disobey to teachers was the most dominant for the verbal delinquency. While authoritative style was found as the most dominant for the parenting style applied by respondent’s parents in rearing their child. It also was found that the parents had shown high involvements in their child daily activities in school. In this study, it was discovered that no significant relationship between student’s delinquency in school with parents involvements in their child’s daily activities in school. The same case goes to the analysis between student’s delinquencies in school with parenting styles applied by parents in rearing their child which was also found as no significant relationship between both variables. However, the study had found that there was a significant relationship between parenting styles applied by parents in rearing their child with parents involvements in their child’s daily activities in school. This research suggests a further research to find the cause of student’s delinquency in school and used it to solve the student’s delinquency problems.