Cultural Variations in Parenting Styles in the Majority World Evidences from Nigeria and Cameroon

Abstract

The study was carried out to find out the influence of parental authoritativeness on adolescents’ academic achievement. As expected, the result shows that both mothers and fathers’ authoritativeness positively relate to the academic achievement of the students. The implications of the result are discussed. Keywords: authoritative parenting, authoritarian parenting, permissive parenting, parenting style, academic achievement