Parent’s Expectation And Its Impact On Their Children’s Academic Performance

Parent's expectations are considered as parental attitudes which explain their hopes and aspirations towards their children. It has always been one of the famous stress factors amongst students. When it comes to choice of carrier, some parents tend to make decisions for their children while some chose to allow their child to follow its passion. These types of parents might differ in their expectation range.The aim of this is to study the varying expectations of parents of BDS students. The objectives are, torecognise the expectations of parents who forced their children to join BDS course.also to determine the expectations of parents whose children joined the BDS course willingly and to evaluate the difference between 2 types of expectation and to understand the advantage and disadvantage of parental expectation. In this study a sample of 120 parents of BDS students of Saveetha Dental College will be taken into consideration. 30 parents of students from each year (that is 1st to 4th year) regardless of gender consideration. These parents will be given a well-constructed questionnaire. Eventually, the data collected from the survey will be used to analyze and evaluate the varying expectations of parents of BDS students.Through this study an assertive analysis will be able to be made which will be useful in understanding the significance of parental expectation.