Exploring Parental Dynamics and Their Subtle Impacts on Student Personality Development: A Perspective of University of Sargodha

Abstract

The role of parents in the personality development of university students is a critical area of study in educational psychology. To clearly define the area of the study and the target population, this research targets the students of the University of Sargodha to establish the link between parenting and student personality. According to the quantitative research design, respondents’ data were obtained from a sample of 150 students through a Likert scale questionnaire. The correlation analysis shows that there is a first degree relationship between personality development of students, our dependent variable and parental influence, our independent variable with correlation coefficient of 0. Equal to 3579 and the level of significance of 0. Wider result range 0.500- 0.999 shows a moderate and strong relationship with r> 0.700, where r will be equal to 0.877 (This is calculated by taking the sample correlation coefficient, dividing it by one, converting it to decimal form and adding one to it : [(0.877) / 1] = 0.877. The result shows that there is a positive correlation between parents and personality development of students with the correlation coefficient of 0. 579 that displayed a significance level of 0. 00. The collected data were analyzed by relative frequencies and Chi-square tests in the framework of the bivariate analysis with the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results attained by means of statistics support the hypotheses referring to the connections between the independent and the dependent factors, as the p-values are below 0. 05. Thus, the present study emphasizes the necessity of parental impact will character of university students.

Key Words: Personality Development, Parents, Sargodha University Students