CORRELATION BETWEEN PARENTING STYLE AND STUDENTS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH YOGYAKARTA
Abstract
Parenting becomes the most important thing in preparing children before
they should be in school environment and social environment. The objective of
this research is to find out students’ parenting style, students’ academic
achievement, and correlation between parenting styles’ academic achievement.
The design of research used in this study is quantitative research. The
population took from Education English Department Universitas Muhammadiyah
Yogyakarta as much as around 152 students in 2013. The sample result taken 20
% or more from the whole population is 33 students. The method will used on this
research is descriptive quantitative and correlation method. Quantitative method is
applied to analyze students’ academic achievement and parenting styles’ academic
achievement.
The reseach found that the average score of democratic parenting style is
3.14, while the permissive and authoritarian style is about 2.30 and 2.18. Students
academic achievement was shown trough the Grade Point Average (GPA). The
highest GPA point from those 33 respondents is 3.90, coming from 1 respondent
and the lowest GPA point is 2.90, coming from 2 respondents. There is no
significant relevance between parenting style and students academic achievement
as shown by the significance point 0.654 (sig.> 0.05).