PARENT CHILD ATTACHMENT AS MEDIATOR OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTING STYLE AND STUDENT'S GRADE

Abstract

The primary school pupil’s grade is affected by different variables. This study examines parent child attachment as mediator of the relationship between parenting style and student’s achievement. This was a quantitative analysis that utilized two questionnaires (the Kinship Attachment Center Questionnaire and a Parenting Style Questionnaire) in order to obtain data. The sample for this research consisted of 200 parents of primary pupils attending private international schools in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Malaysia. The correlations result of the study showed that attachment has a positive significant relationship with authoritative and authoritarian parenting style and has a significant negative relationship with permissive parenting style. Attachment also has a positive relationship with grade. In this research, also attachment plays a mediator role between parenting style and grade. In the other words, as parenting style decreases, grade increase and attachment play a mediating role in this increase. So, the finding of this study shows that an attachment has a mediating effect on the relationship between authoritative and authoritarian parenting style and grade and no effect on permissive parenting style and grade.