A STUDY ON PARENTAL SUPPORT OF HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS

Abstract

Parental support positively impacts students' academic performance, confirms the previous majority of studies. The present study goes beyond and in-depth to study the impact of curricular support, co-curricular support, social support, financial support, and emotional support that make up parental support on higher secondary students studying class XI (N=592) and class XII (N=758) from Mayiladuthurai district (N=450), Nagapattinam district (N=450), and Cuddalore district (N=450) of Tamil Nadu State, India. The study results showed that the male higher secondary students were in an advantageous position and received more parental support than the female regarding curricular support, co-curricular support, social support, financial support, emotional support, and parental support in total; the higher secondary students studying in rural schools, received more parental support than the urban regarding co-curricular support, social support, financial support and emotional support; the higher secondary students studying in girls’ schools received more parental support regarding curricular support, co-curricular support, social support, financial support, emotional support, and parental support in total than the boys' and co-education schools; the higher secondary students studying in government schools received more parental support regarding co-curricular support, social support, financial support, and parental support in total than the aided and self-financed school higher secondary students. 

Keywords: Parental support, curricular support, co-curricular support, social support, financial support, emotional support, higher secondary students