Examination of 192 parents and the same number of their children attending 7th form of Primary School revealed that different methods of managing the family affected children’s motivation in different degrees. Children are affected in a most positive way by the d e m o c r a- t i c style, while authoritative and haphazard styles are les positive. The differences, however, are manisest at the level of overall motivation; but no single style, taken separately, affects to a different degree the intrinsic or the extrinsic motivation alone. The results show that different styles affect boys and girls to unequal degrees. With girls, the democratic and the authoritative styles tic and the authoritative style is less effective. In connection with these findings, differences due to parent’s management as well those due to sex should be respected when planning procedures aimed at motivating the pupils.
