PARENTING STYLES AS A CORRELATE OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS IN AWKA SOUTH, NIGERIA
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Keywords:
Parenting styles, academic achievement, primary school pupils, mathematicsAbstract
The study investigated parenting styles as a correlate of academic achievement of primary school pupils. Five research questions and five research hypotheses guided the study. The study made use of the survey research design. The research was done in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The sample of the study constituted of 200 primary five pupils. The instrument titled the Scale of Parenting Style (SPS) questionnaire developed by Gafoor and Kurukkan (2014) was adopted for data collection in the study. Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used in answering the research questions while the t-test at 0.05 level of significance was used for testing the research hypotheses. The major finding from the study showed that parenting styles is related to primary pupils’ academic achievement in Mathematics. It was recommended among other things that parents should be educated on the impart of the style of parenting they adopt in raising their children on their academic achievement and to use only styles that would lend themselves to the development of a child’s cognitive, emotional, social and academic competencies.
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