Impact of Parental Socio-Economic Status on the Academic Achievement and Frustration Level of College Students

Abstract

Socio-economic status is an economic and sociological experience of an individual or family income and social position in relation to others based on income, education & occupation. Academic-achievement is the extent to which a student or institution has achieved their short or long term educational goals cumulative GPA and Completion of educational degrees such as high school and bachelor’s degrees represent academic achievement. Frustration as one of the most challenging problem faced by the educational administrators today seems to be that of accurate prediction of psychological, sociological and cognitive variable of the students positioning different level of frustration. AIM: To investigate the impact of Parental Socio-Economic status on the Academic Achievement and frustration level of the students. METHOD: The Sample consists of 80 adolescent students of the college of Udhampur district. Results revealed that there is no significant difference between socio-economic status, academic achievement and in the frustration level of boys & girls college students. There is a negative correlation between socio-economic status & academic achievement, between academic achievement & frustration level of boys & girls.