The Relationship Of Parental Attitude Towards Girls Education With Their Academic Achievements And Self Efficacy

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of parental attitude towards girls’ education with their academic achievements and self-efficacy. This study used Quantitative survey and correlational research methods. The target papulation was all 1807 10th grade girls’ students of all Government Girls Secondary School at Tehsil Takht Bhai during the academic year 2022-2023. Among 1807 students 317 were selected as a sample by simple random sampling (Fish Bowl Method). Already developed standardized Scale for Self-Efficacy of students and Scale for parental attitude towards female education were used for collection of data with the permission of the authors. The Cronbach’s alpha for self-efficacy scale was 0.73 and the Cronbach’s alpha for parental attitude towards girl’s education was 0.72 which were acceptable. The collected data were faded in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software and were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, Mean, Standard deviation and Pearson r. The level of significance was s[1]et as 0.05. The results of the study showed that 67.66% parents showed positive attitude towards girls’ education. 08% of girls’ showed high self-efficacy. Similarly the correlation of attitude of parents and girls academic achievements showed very weak positive correlation and showed no significant correlation with p-value (0.074). The correlation of attitude of parents and girls Self-Efficacy showed moderate positive correlation and showed significant correlation with p-value (0.000). The correlation of girls Self-Efficacy and academic achievements showed very weak positive correlation and showed no significant correlation with p-value (0.304). It is recommended that parents should encourage girls’ education which can positively impact girls' academic achievements and reinforce their self-efficacy beliefs.