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The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between educational aspiration of the secondary school students with parental encouragement and to find out the difference in educational aspiration and parental encouragement of secondary school students on the basis of gender. This study was conducted on a sample of 400 students studying in secondary schools of Kashmir division. Level of Educational Aspiration test standardized by Yashmin Ghani Khan(2011) and Parental Encouragement scale standardized by R.R. Sharma (2010) was administered to collect the data. In order to find out the difference in educational aspiration and parental encouragement of the secondary school students on the basis of gender, t- test was used and to find out the relationship between educational aspiration of secondary school students with parental encouragement, Pearson's coefficient of correlation was used. The result shows that there exists no significant difference between male and female secondary school students in their educational aspiration and parental encouragement. Further the results indicate that there exists a positive significant relationship between educational aspiration of secondary school students with parental encouragement.
Keywords: educational aspiration, parental encouragement, secondary school students
Educational aspiration
Education is a continuous attempt to develop all capacities of the students to control their neighboring environment and to fulfill their needs. Aspiration means a longing for and striving for some goal higher than oneself or one's present status, which differs from ambition, which is the eagerness or an ardent desire to achieve a particular honor or power. Goel (2004) explored the impact of environment in home and gender on educational aspirations. Results revealed that girls have high educational aspiration than boys. Boys feel more rejected with the atmosphere at home in comparison to girls who experienced more nurturance than boys. Hektner et al. (2000) and Dai (1996) examined that there were insignificant gender differences in educational aspirations between senior level high school students. However, Wilson and Wilson (1992) investigated educational aspirations reported by male high school students were significantly higher than by female classmates. Conversely, Mau et al. ( 1998) found that male students had significantly less educational aspirations than female students at both the 10th and 12th grades. Also, Mau and Bikos (2000) found that although educational and occupational aspirations increased among the high school...