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In Asian context, it seems father’s parenting style and mother’s parenting style has different effect on students. Therefore, I predict students who received authoritative parenting from either father or mother will get higher academic achievement, but students who received authoritarian parenting from mother will get higher grades as well. As there were differences between fathers’ and mothers’ parenting style (Shek, 1998), Mckinney and Renk (2008) found adolescents perceive father and mother have different parenting styles, fathers were more likely to be authoritarian and mothers were more likely to be authoritative and permissive. Because of that, present study measured fathers’ and mothers’ parenting style separately. Moreover, instead of asking parent’s parenting style directly, student’s perceived parenting styles was measured. Personality and Academic Performance Many studies tried to explore the relationship between personality and academic performance and found some personality traits are relate to academic achievement (Digman, 1997; Murphy & Cleveland, 1995; Poropat, 2009; Poropat, 2011). To measure one’s personality traits, there are many scales, for example the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the five-factor model (FFM) and the Eysenckian personality model. According to the Poropat (2009) meta-analysis, the FFM is the dominant models of personality, it measures personality in five dimensions: agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion and openness to experience. For the Eysenckian personality model, the Eysenckian personality questionnaire (EPQ) was widely used. Poropat (2011) suggested it as the predecessors to the question of understanding academic performance, and it have some modest v... ... middle of paper ... ...irical evidence of validity of EPQ (Poropat, 2011). In the present study, I will also use the EPQ as a tool to measure participant’s personality traits. But according to Poropat (2011), different age and different school settings, for example primary school versus high school, may confound the results. Therefore, I will study participants in same educational settings, for example, all participants are college students. Moreover, consider the distance between teacher and students in college, extraverted students may not gain much advantage in relations with teachers, therefore, I predicted extraversion and introversion personality traits may not significantly associated with academic performance, but the level of neuroticism is strongly associated with student’s academic performance, neurotic students should have lower academic performance than not neurotic students.