Influence of Parenting Styles on the Adolescent Students' Academic Achievement in Kenyan Day Secondary Schools.
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Influence of Parenting Styles on the Adolescent Students' Academic Achievement in Kenyan Day Secondary Schools.
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The present study sought to establish the influence of parenting styles on adolescent academic achievement in
day secondary schools in North Rachuonyo Sub-County, Kenya. Baumrind’s theory of parenting style informed
the study. The Concurrent Triangulation Design was used. The target population comprised 2409 day secondary
students registered for KCSE in 2015 in 47 schools in Rachuonyo North Sub-County. The sample size comprised
263 secondary school students drawn from Sub-County day secondary schools. Ten Principals were randomly
selected for interviews. Baumrid’s parenting styles questionnaire and interview schedule were used to collect the
data from the students and principals respectively. Validity of the questionnaire was ensured by expertise
judgement from university lecturers while reliability was determined by internal consistency and reliability
coefficient of 0.718 was reported. Quantitative data was analysed using Regression analysis while qualitative
data was analysed using Thematic Analysis. The study found that parenting styles statistically significantly
predict academic performance of the adolescents, F (4, 242) = 43.529, p < .05, R2 = .630. The findings also
suggest that independent variables (Authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, neglectful parenting style) explain
(63.0%) of the variability of the dependent variable, (adolescents’ academic performance). The study
recommended that teacher counsellors should identify at risk students from the parents susceptible of negative
influence and offer appropriate therapy.
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