Relation of Parental Involvement and Goal Orientation in Adolescents

The present study aims to find out the effect of parental involvement on the goal orientation of adolescents. This study had been conducted on a sample of 150 adolescents (75 males and 75 females) randomly selected from various schools of the Nainital district of Uttarakhand. For the data collection of parental involvement 'Parental Involvement Scale' by Chauhan & Arora (2009) and for the data collection of goal orientation 'Goal orientation Test' by Shreekala (2013) was used. For the analyses of data, ANOVA had been used. The findings of the study revealed that there is no significant difference among the adolescents of three groups i.e high, average and low. Male and female participants differ significantly on goal orientation and the Study also revealed that there is a significant difference among parental involvement and gender.