Investigation of the relationship of perceived parental attitude with students' academic achievement level and future planning skills

In this study, parental attiudes, which are thought to have a great impact on students future planning skils and academic achiviement, were examined. Correlational survey design was used in this study. The sample of the study consists of 400 students studying at the high school level of a private secondary education institution in Beylikdüzü District of Istanbul provinice in the academic year 2023-2024. Students participated in the study, voluntarily. After obtaining the necessary permissions from the people who developed or adapted the research data, three scales were collected using the Perceived Parental Pressure Scale, the Parental Reactions that increase and decrease Motivation to study scale, and the Future Vision Scale. Excel Programs (Microsoft Office, 15/ClientX64, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, USA) were used to classify the data and calculate the percentage differences, and IBM SPSS Version 25 program was used for static alanalysis. Pearson correlation test was used to examine the relationship between the scales. According to the results obtained from the research data, parental academic pressure percieved by secondary school students varies according to the school they study, their achievement averages, gender and grade level, buthas a significant relationship with future vision and academic achievement. The research evaluated the pressure on academic achievement through different variables. According to the gender variable, male students feel parental academic achievement pressure more than female students. There is a positive and statistically significant relationship between students' grade point averages (GPA) and parents' perceptions of academic pressure. The results of the study show that the perceived parental academic achievement pressure levels of students with a GPA between 65-75 are higher than those of students with a GPA between 76-85 and 86-100. A strong positive relationship was found between the scale of parental pressure for academic achievement academically and the scale of parental reactions that increase and decrease motivation to study. As parental pressure for academic achievement increases, there is an increase in parental responses that increase and decrease motivation to study. According to another finding in the study, a very weak, negative strong relationship was found between the parental academic achievement pressure scale and the future vision scale. As parental pressure for academic success increases, the student's vision of the future decreases. Keywords: Parental pressure for academic success, future vision, student, parent