Parenting Styles and Academic Performance of Senior High School Students

ABSTRACT: The district-wide survey study examined the parenting styles and academic performance among Grade 12 learners in Social Science amidst the CoViD-19 pandemic. The study involved two hundred forty-four (244) parents as respondents. The study used descriptive research design through survey questionnaires as the main instrument in gathering the required data. Descriptive and Inferential statistics were employed in the computation, analysis, and interpretation of data. Results of the study revealed that most parent-respondents are female, in their middle adulthood, with a minimum family and a number of children. Parents agree on the parenting styles they do. The mean academic performance of Grade 12 learners in Social Science was “Very Satisfactory”. There was a significant difference in parents’ parenting styles as to authoritarian style when respondents were grouped according to age and family monthly income. There was a significant difference in parents’ parenting styles as to permissive style when respondents were grouped according to age. There was a significant difference in parents’ parenting styles as to authoritative style when respondents were grouped according to the number of children in the family. There was a very low positive correlation between the parenting styles of parents and the academic performance of Grade 12 learners in Social Science. Based on the study’s findings, parents may consider exploring appropriate parenting styles to motivate their children, and parents are encouraged not to spoil their children. Parents are encouraged to attend any PTA meetings to show support for their children’s learning. The parents may consider equally practiced parenting styles as authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative regardless of their profile. It may be possible to undertake a comparative study with a bigger sample size of participants from various places to validate and enhance the generalizability of the results.

KEYWORDS : academic performance, parenting style, senior high school students, Botolan, Zambales