Parental Acceptance Rejection and Schooling Status: Contributory Factors to Self-Concept Development of a Child

The present study was meant to investigate a child's assessment of personality and self-concept viz: schooling status and perceived parental behaviour. For this purpose, three groups of subjects (N= 106): Group A was chosen from a privilleged school, (reflecting a privilleged class); group B from a government school (a middle class status); and group C was from the un-privillege class i.e., the non-school attending children. Child Parental Acceptance/Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ). Child Personality Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ), and the Self Concept Questionnaire were used for the present work. A significant difference was found between the three groups on the dependent variable: Child PARQ, Child PAQ, and the Self Concept.