Parental Expectations and Influence on Academic Stress among UG Students

Kumar S and Tungoe MW

Every student, from kindergarten all the way through college, needs their parents' help to succeed academically. On the other hand, children's academic performance suffers when parents demand too much without providing enough support. Their academic performance suffers and their stress levels rise when they fail to meet their parents' expectations. In the Indian state of Nagaland, the study's goal was to examine the connection between parental expectations and academic stress among undergraduate students. We used a random sampling technique to get our samples. Empirical data consisting of 178 samples was collected from undergraduate students in Nagaland’ Dimapur and a liker scale questionnaire was used. The DASS-42 scale was used to measure students' mental health condition and student's parental expectations were measured using the High Parental Expectations (HPE) scale. University of Nagaland first-year students reported a strong link between family expectations and academic stress. Academic stress and its subscales (anxiety, depression, and stress) were also shown to be significantly different across the sexes, according to an independent sample t-test.