Background and objectives: Parenting plays a significant role in promoting the child’s growth and development. Many writers have noted that the broad pattern of parenting is important in predicting child’s well-being as well as each and every parent has their own unique style of dealing with their children. For achieving good academic performance, children need great influence of parents. In the past 25 years, numerous studies on the family and school connection have examined the influence of distinct types of parenting styles on student’s school based outcomes. This study aims to assess the relationship between parenting style and academic performance among B.Sc nursing students. Methods: The study was done by quantitative approach with correlation study design. The tool consist of structured questionnaire to assess the demographic variables, students perception of parenting style and the leadership qualities along with the percentage of marks achieved in the university examination. Results: The study findings reveled that among 150 samples the ‘r’ value was found to be 0.088. Hence, the result showed that there was no significant correlation between parenting style and academic performance. Conclusion: The study findings identified that there was no significant correlation between parenting style and academic performance. But there was a significant association between parenting style and gender of the samples.

Keywords: Relationship; Parenting Style and Academic Performance.