Effect of Parental Expectations on Academic Anxiety of High School Students

The present study focuses on to find out the effect of parental expectation on academic anxiety of high school students. For this we administered Hindi translation of perception of parental expectations inventory constructed and standardized by Dr. S. Karunanidhi and Dr.S. Sasikala and Academic Anxiety Scale for Children by A.K. Singh and A. Sen Gupta and administered it on 400 high school students of government schools of Dehradun and Haridwar district of Uttrakhand. Then Statistical measure Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and regression analysis was calculated for analysis of data. The results reveal that there was positive relationship between academic anxiety and other dimension of parental expectation namely personal expectation, academic expectation, career expectation parental ambition and parental expectation (0,289, 0.265,0.209,0.243,and 0.305),and parental expectation and its dimension are able to predict about academic anxiety its equation was Academic Anxiety= 2.661943+ 0.223263*Personal Expectation+ 0.123318*Parental Ambition. These results reveal that high parental expectations tend to high academic anxiety in adolescents.