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This study aimed to explore the relationship between academic stress and parental involvement among higher secondary school students. Academic stress is a condition characterized by demands that tax an individual's physical or mental resources. Stress can be triggered by various events, positive or negative. The source of stress can be environmental, physical, or emotional. Parental involvement fosters self-esteem and a sense of self-worth in students, reducing their risk of depression. Students and their parents (200 samples) were selected as sample by incidental cum purposive sampling method. The tools used were Academic stress Scale and Parent Involvement Scale. Three hypotheses were formulated: (1) there will be low stress level in higher secondary students having high parental involvement. (2) There will be more parental involvement in female children than boy's students. (3) Gender difference will be found in level of stress and parental involvement. The findings were that (1) Parents showed average involvement hence, higher secondary students had moderate level of academic stress (2) Parental involvement was same for both boys and girls and (3) Gender difference was not found between the level of stress and parental involvement. Both boys and girls had same level of academic stress and parental involvement.