Gender and socio-economic differences on perceived parental acceptance – rejection among college students of Ranchi University, Ranchi

The purpose of the present research was to study gender and socio-economic differences on perceived parental acceptance – rejection among college students of Ranchi University, Ranchi. It was hypothesized that boys will perceive more parental rejection than girl’s student and students belonging to high socio-economic status will perceive more parental acceptance than students belonging to low socio-economic status. The sample of the present study consisted of 171 under-graduate college going final year students which were selected from various degree colleges of Ranchi University, Ranch. Hindi Adaptation of Rohner’s Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire, (PARQ, Prakash and Bhargava, 1978, Adult Form) was applied to identify perceived parentally accepted and rejected college students. Among 171 college students, 91 identified as parentally accepted whereas, rest 80 identified as parentally rejected students. Among 171 college students, 87 were boys and rest 84 students were girls. 88 students were belonged to high socio-economic status whereas rest 83 belonged to low socio-economic status group. The obtained data was analyzed with the help of Mean, SD and ‘t’ test. Result shows that, boys perceived more parental rejection than girl’s student and students belonging to high socio-economic status perceived more parental acceptance than students belonging to low socio-economic status.