🧠 Journal Summary: Parenting style and emotional intelligence as the predictors of academic buoyancy

🧠 Journal Summary: Parenting style and emotional intelligence as the predictors of academic buoyancy among the senior secondary students

Authors: Sarab Tej Singh, Satish Kumar, Vishal Singh

Published In: Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn)

🔍 Study Summary

This research investigated the relationship between academic buoyancy, emotional intelligence, and parenting styles among senior secondary students in Punjab, India. The study aimed to understand how academic buoyancy varies based on parenting styles and emotional intelligence, and to compare academic buoyancy across students from different academic streams (science, commerce, and arts).

The motivation for the study stemmed from the stressful nature of the Indian educational system and its impact on student performance, highlighting the need to enhance academic buoyancy.

💡 Key Concepts

• Academic Buoyancy: This refers to an individual’s strength to effectively manage daily academic challenges, obstacles, and failures in learning environments while maintaining a positive attitude and persistence towards their academic goals. It involves the ability to recover from setbacks faced during learning.
• Emotional Intelligence: This involves the capacity to identify and comprehend one’s own emotions and the emotions of others. The study notes that emotions are influenced by life experiences and affect daily activities.
• Parenting Styles: These are the various approaches parents use in raising their children, which are fundamental to a child’s socialization, development of worldviews, and learning social norms. The study highlights the significant impact of the parent-child relationship on a child’s development.

📊 Key Insights

• Academic buoyancy and emotional intelligence were found to be significantly higher in girls compared to boys.
• Significant differences in parenting styles were observed based on gender.
• There was a significant difference in all variables (academic buoyancy, emotional intelligence, and parenting styles) based on the academic stream of the students.
• A significant positive relationship exists between academic buoyancy and emotional intelligence.
• Both emotional intelligence and parenting styles were identified as significant predictors of academic buoyancy.

📘 Example Application

In a high school setting, school counselors and administrators can organize workshops for parents to educate them about different parenting styles and their impact on a child’s academic resilience. For instance, parents practicing a democratic parenting style, which was found to be the most prevalent and effective, could be encouraged to foster open communication and provide autonomy, thereby nurturing their children’s emotional intelligence and academic buoyancy.

Simultaneously, schools could implement programs that specifically enhance emotional intelligence skills among students, such as stress management techniques or conflict resolution, particularly for boys and students in streams that show lower academic buoyancy, helping them better cope with academic pressures and improve their overall performance.

💬 Comment from Dr. Dwi Suryanto

These findings are crucial because they underscore the interconnectedness of home environment, emotional well-being, and academic success. For parents, understanding how their parenting style can directly influence their child’s ability to bounce back from academic setbacks offers practical guidance.

For educators and policymakers, recognizing the predictive power of emotional intelligence and adapting support systems based on gender and academic stream can lead to more targeted and effective interventions, ultimately creating a more resilient and positive learning environment for all students.

📌 Takeaway

This research highlights that fostering academic buoyancy in students can be achieved by enhancing their emotional intelligence and adopting supportive parenting styles, providing a pathway for parents and educators to collaboratively build more resilient and successful learners.