Parental Motivation and Students’ Interest in their Studies

The study intends to assess the parental motivation and students’ interest in their studies. Those students who are motivated in learning tend to perform better than those who are unmotivated and unengaged students. For students who seem to lack an interest in learning, it may be good to provide ineffective strategy which is giving motivations to them. It is important to know if the students’ interest in their studies has developed by the motivation given by their parents as it will identify the things that needs to consider whether it develops the students’ interest or not. This can be done by parents spending time working with the students at home. The research was a quantitative descriptive correlational design which explores the relationship between parental motivation and students’ interest in their studies using statistical analyses. The 249 respondents were all the Senior High School particularly Grades 11 and 12. Students’ interest in their studies showed that most of the students in Senior High School Department often show that they haven interest in their studies. Students always like to attend school regularly, always like to gain big scores on every test and also always ask for help when they didn’t understand the discussion. However, some indicators also present that some of the students seldom raise their hands if they want to answer. In the variable namely as parental motivation, students -are motivated by their parents. However, not all the students are blessed by rewards from their parents which is part of extrinsic motivation. The result of the study states that the null hypothesis is rejected. Therefore, there is an association between parental motivation and students’ interest in their studies.

Keywords: Parental Motivation, Students’ Interest, Studies, academic outcomes