2 AS RELATM TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

MANY STUDIES of achievers and underachievers in college have dealt with the personality character-istics of the students including the students ' views of their parents. However, relatively few studies have been done on parental attitudes as related to their child's academic achievement. Those studies that have been:eported in this area have, for t he most part, focused on the parent's general attitudes toward child rearing (2) or toward education. It has been the rare study that has dealt with the parent'