Motivation may be regarded as something which prompts, compels and energizes an individual to act or behave in a particular manner at a particular time for attaining specific goal or purpose. Achievement motivation refers to the behaviour of an individual, who strives to accomplish to do his best, to excel others in performance. Parenting style is of utmost importance in this world which is full of competition and has a healthy relationship with the achievement motivation of children. The purpose of the research is to find out the relationship of different types of parenting styles (Democratic, Autocratic, Accepting, Rejecting, Overprotecting and Overdemanding) with the achievement motivation among high school students. For this purpose, standardized tools namely Deo-Mohan Achievement Motivation Scale by Deo and Mohan (2011) and Children's Perception of Parenting Scale by Pyari and Kalra (21005) have been used. The sample comprises 250 high school students from eight schools of Tehsil Mendhar of District Poonch selected through Random Sampling Technique. In order to analyze the data, statistical techniques namely Mean, Standard Deviation and t-Test have been employed. The findings indicated significant gender differences in achievement motivation among high school students in favour of female students. Female students perceived their parents better than male students on five subscales (Democratic, Autocratic, Accepting, Rejecting, and Overdemanding) of Children's Perception of Parenting scale. There are significant correlations between achievement motivation and three subscales (Democratic, Accepting and Rejecting) and no significant correlations have been found between achievement motivation and three subscales (Autocratic, Overprotecting and Overdemanding) of Children's Perception of Parenting Scale
