Paternal acceptance-rejection among upper primary school pupils with reference to types of family and income

Abstract Main objective of the study is to find out the impact of types of family and total monthly income of family on parental acceptance-rejection among upper primary school pupils. For this total 600 upper primary school pupils taken as a sample out of that, 276 pupils from joint family and 324 from nuclear family. In another same group 287 pupils from low total monthly of family and 313 pupils from high total monthly income of family. Data were collected from north-east Banaskantha district, Gujarat. The parental acceptance-rejection scale developed (Rohner, R. P.,2005) Indian adaption of Dr. Jai Prakash and Dr. Mahesh Bhargava (2015) and its Gujarati standardized version by Jadav (2025) was used, Data were analysis by ‘t’ test. Result show that, pupils living in joint families experience comparatively less parental acceptance and may have a higher level of rejection, whereas in a nuclear family the pupils experience comparatively more parental acceptance and may have a lower level of rejection. The level of paternal acceptance is lower in pupils from low income families and the level of rejection is higher, while the level of acceptance is higher in pupils from high income families.