Stress and Parental Involvement

The objective of the present study titled “Stress and Parental Involvement” was to see the effect of parental involvement on stress in children and whether it exerts positive or negative effect on children. Stress is a state of affair involving demand on physical or mental energy. Any event may create stress whether it is good or bad. The stressor can be anything, environmental or physical or emotional. When stress is within the comfort zone, it can help in staying focused, energetic and alert. Parental involvement has been recognized as the most important factor to influence the childhood and adulthood. Educational success is one of the primary outcome of parental involvement. Such children also become well adjusted in the society. Parental involvement also boosts self-esteem and a feeling of self worth in children. They are less likely to get depressed. Children and their parents (60 samples) were selected as sample by incidental cum purposive sampling method. The tools used were Stress Scale and Parent Involvement Scale. Three hypotheses were formulated: (1) There will be low stress level in children having high parental involvement. (2) There will be more parental involvement in female children than male children. (3) Gender difference will be found in level of stress and parental involvement. The findings were that (1) Parents showed average involvement hence, children had moderate level of stress (2) Parental involvement was same for both male and female and (3) Gender difference was not found between the level of stress and parental involvement. Both male and female had same level of stress and parental involvement.