Parental Acceptace-Rejection and Social Skills of Lowgrade Primary School Students

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the Low-grade primary school students’ Social Skills with reference to their parents’ Acceptance and Rejection. The sample consisted of 150 students and their parents of different private schools of Multan city. Information was collected by using Urdu translated versions of two scales; Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ; Haque, 1981) and Social Skills Scale (Khan, 2005). The data was quantitatively analyzed by using SPSS. Demographic variables of the present study were gender, family system, family size and family income. The results of the study indicated that Paternal and Maternal rejection negatively predicted Social skills. Low grades students who perceived more rejection from their parents had less social skills, as compared to low grades students who perceived acceptance from their parents. There was no gender difference found in terms of social skills and perceived parental rejection. Joint families’ students were higher on social skills and perceived Rejection by their parents. Difference in terms of family size was found with more perceived paternal and maternal rejection in large families and more paternal rejection in low income families. Social skills were higher in students belonging to large and high income families.