Extent of Parental Support: Its Relationship to Students’ Extracurricular Activities and Academic Performance

This descriptive-correlation study was intended to establish the level of parental support and its correlation with the learner's extracurricular activities and performance of the Freshmen Teacher Education students. Forty-eight (48) Freshmen Teacher Education students were randomly selected to respond to the validated researchers-made instrument to find out the level of support of the parents to the learner's school and extracurricular activities. The performance was measured using the general average of the students of the Freshmen Teacher Education. Frequency distribution, mean, and Pearson r were the statistical tools utilized in interpreting the data. The findings of the research indicated that the level of parental support felt by the first year of study was "high". There is the average level of extracurricular activities participation and good performance in school. In addition, there was a strongly significant and apparent correlation between the level of parental support and students' involvement in extra-curricular activities. Nonetheless, the level of parental support was not statistically correlated with students' academic achievement.