The Relationship Of Parental Corporal Punishment With Students’ Self-Efficacy And Academic Achievement

Abstract

The objectives of the study were to measure the intensity of parental corporal punishment of 388 students at secondary level and to find out the correlation between parental corporal punishment of students and their academic achievement. Moreover, it was also aimed to find correlation between students’ self-efficacy and academic achievement. The achievement score was measured by taking their previous class achievement score (9th Grade).It was descriptive study and survey type as well as co relational research. Two questionnaires were used for data collection. One was about parental punishment and the other was about self-efficacy. The Questionnaires were pilot tested before implementation. The parental punishment had a Cronbach Alpha of .82. While the questionnaire for self-efficacy had a Cronbach Alpha of .89. The population of the study consisted of Secondary level students of Grade 10^th of both public and private schools from four districts (District Dir lower, Buner, Lower Chitral, Bajour) of Malakand Region, KPK which were 44227 students.  The sample was selected from eight schools of Grade 10 from each district randomly. Twenty percent students from each tenth grade were[1] selected by multi-stage random sampling technique. Data collected from questionnaires were analyzed through using descriptive statistics as well as inferential including mean, frequencies, percentage, t-test and correlation by using SPSS. It was found out that there was weak positive significant relationship between students’ self-efficacy and academic achievement and the students who were punished showed less academic performance in their examination r=-.63. It was recommended that students should be not be punished as it would result in deteriorating their self-efficacy and academic performance.