Abstract

The present study which was descriptive in nature aimed to find out whether parenting style has any impact on students who have chosen different streams for their study at higher secondary level belonging to district Anantnag. The study was conducted on 100 students which were randomly selected belonging to different govt and private higher secondary schools of district Anantnag. Data was collected by using Parenting Style Scale by Gupta and Mehtani (2017). Gender equality was maintained wherever possible. The main finding of the study was that parenting style has a significant effect on students belonging to Arts Stream as compared to the students belonging to science stream.

Key words: Parenting Style, Gender Equality, Random Sampling, Descriptive.