Topic: perceived parental trust as a predictor of psychological well-being, social

adjustment and academic achievement among university students.

Methodology

Research design

Correlational research design will be followed in present research for finding

relationships between perceived parental trust and social adjustment and academic

achievement of university students.

Sampling strategy

Non-probability convenient sampling will be used and those participants will be

selected who’ll give their consent for participation in the research project.

Participants

The participants will be of age 20 – 25 years and sample will be consisted of 100

women form LCWU.

Inclusion criteria

Only university students of ages 20 – 25 years will be included.

Exclusion criteria

Students doing their part-time jobs, short courses and having any disability will not be

included.

Operational definitions

Parental trust: trust is a crucial factor in relationships between parents and their

children’s academics. Trust generally enhances parental involvement in educational institute

and their involvement in teachers, their support and last but not the least their children’s

educational achievements.

Social adjustment: social adjustment is an effort made by an individual to cope with

standards, values and needs of a society in order to be accepted. It involves coping with new

standards and values.

Academic achievement: academic achievement refers to the level of schooling the

person has successfully completed and the ability to attain success in the studies.

Ethical considerations

 The research will be started after getting permission from authors for using scales.

 Permission letter will be signed from head of institute and supervisor for data

collection.

 Only willing students will be taken for this research project after signing informed

consent data collection will be started.

Instruments/tools

Inventory of parent and peer attachment: The IPPA was developed in order to

assess adolescents’ perceptions of the positive and negative affective/cognitive dimension of

relationships with their parents and close friends – particularly how well these figures serve

as sources of psychological security.

The instrument is a self-report questionnaire with a five point likert-scale response

format. The original version consists of 28 parents and 25 peer items, yielding two

attachment scores. The revised version (Mother, Father, and Peer Version) is comprised of 25

items in each of the mother, father, and peer sections, yielding three attachment scores. The
IPPA is scored by reverse-scoring the negatively worded items and then summing the

response values in each section.

Psychological well-being questionnaire: Carol Ryff has conceptualized

psychological well-being as consisting of 6 dimensions: autonomy, environmental mastery,

personal growth, positive relations with others, purpose in life, self-acceptance. She has

designed self-report scales to assess individual's well-being at a particular moment in time

within each of these 6 dimensions. Three- to 12- item per scale validated versions exist of the

measure for use in survey research or other data collection. Individuals respond to various

statements and indicate on a 6-point Likert scale how true each statement is of them. Higher

scores on each scale indicate greater well-being on that dimension.

Berlin social support scale: The Berlin Social Support Scales (BSSS, Schwarzer &

Schulz, 2000) were developed based on theoretical considerations and reviews of established

measurement instruments for social support. The 6 subscales of the BSSS (perceived, actually

provided and received support, need for support, support seeking, and protective buffering)

measure both cognitive and behavioral aspects of social support.

The answering format is the same for all subscales: Patients rate their agreement with

the statements on a four-point scale. Possible endorsements are strongly disagree (1),

somewhat disagree (2), somewhat agree (3) and strongly agree (4). Negative items need to be

reversed. Scale scores are obtained either by adding up item responses (sum scores) or by

generating the scale mean score.

Academic success inventory for college students: The Academic Success Inventory

for College Students (ASICS) is a newly-developed, self-report instrument designed to

evaluate academic success in college students. The 50-item instrument has 10 factors that

measure general academic skills, career decidedness, internal and external motivation,
anxiety, concentration, socializing, personal adjustment, and perceived efficacy of the

instructor.

Demographic questionnaire

Demographics and background information will be collected including age,

education, monthly income, marital status, family system, residence and physical and

psychological illnesses of any member of the family including their duration and form of

treatment.

Procedure

The date will be collected from the university students. Informed consent will be

given to the participants in which they will informed about the topic of the research project.

They will be asked to read it carefully. Informed consent will be taken to ensure the

confidentiality of the participant information and their willingness to participate for the study.

Hope, the participants will complete the questionnaire enthusiastically and will take interest

in completing the questionnaire without any problem and without showing any resistance.

Statistical analysis

Correlation analysis will be used and descriptive of demographic variables will also

be computed.