Family Climate, Stress and Academic Achievement Motivation in Lower Socioeconomic Level High School Students

The purpose of study was to explore the relationship between family climate, stress and academic achievement in high school students. Data were collected from one Marathi medium school (50 boys and 50 girls) in Pune city, on Family Climate Scale (Beena Shaha, 1990), Stress Scale for Students (Mishra & Pande, 1987), and Academic Achievement Motivation Test, (Sharma, 1984). The obtained data were subjected to t-test and Pearson product-moment correlation. Results shows that boys and girls are differ on only family climate (t = 1.44, p< .05). The result of product-moment correlations showed that positive family climate found negatively but not significantly correlated with stress (males: r = -.27, p >.05, and female: r =.-24, p >.05), among both boys and girls, but negative family climate found positively and significantly correlated with academic achievement m girls only (r = -.36, p <.05), but there is negative but not significant correlation m boys ( r =.-06, p >.05). Academic achievement found negatively and significantly correlated with stress in boys (r = -.46, p <.01), but in girls there is no significant correlation(girls:-.06,p >.05). Results were discussed in the light of previous studies.