Study the Relationship between Parenting Style and Child-Parent Relationship on Students' Achievement at the Elementary Level

Abstract

This study aims to find the relationship of parenting style, child parent relationship and student achievement at elementary level. Questionnaires were used for collection of data and sample were comprised 500 parents and 500 students selecting by the random sampling. The results shows that majority of the parent use authoritative parenting style (PS) and student response reveal that their relationship with parent was positive relation. The relationship of PS with child-parent (CP) relationship was positive weak relationship and parenting style with student achievement score was negative weak relationship). Results also show significantly weak and negative relationship between PS and child parent relationship. A majority style of parents is authoritative and child parent relation was positive relation. This reflects the fact that the student has positive relation with their parent and parent has mutually understanding with their child.