1. Academic performance of children in relation to gender, parenting styles, and socioeconomic status: What attributes are important.
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Nayab Ali, Asad Ullah, Abdul Majid Khan, Yunas Khan, Sajid Ali, Aisha Khan, Bakhtawar, Asad Khan, Maaz Ud Din, Rahat Ullah, Umar Niaz Khan, Tariq Aziz, and Mushtaq Ahmad
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
What are the effects of parenting styles on academic performance and how unequal are these effects on secondary school students from different gender and socioeconomic status families constitute the theme of this paper. A cross-sectional and purposive sampling technique was adopted to gather information from a sample of 448 students on a Likert scale. Chi-square, Kendall's Tau-c tests and hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to determine the extent of the relationship among the variables. Chi-square and Kendall's Tau-c (Tc) test results established that the socioeconomic status of the respondent's family explained variation in children's academic performance due to parenting style; however, no significant difference was observed in the academic performance of students based on gender. Furthermore, hierarchal multiple regression analysis established that the family's socioeconomic status, authoritative parenting, permissive parenting, the interaction of socioeconomic status and authoritative parenting, and the interaction of socioeconomic status and permissive parenting were significant predictors (P
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- 2023
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