This study is conducted to explore the impact of parental verbal abuse on academic performance of children; moderating role of coping strategies. The study was based on cross-sectional research designs.  The sample of 150 school children students were taken from district vehari private school, through purposive sampling technique. The study was based on Bandura’s social cognitive theory. The verbal abuse scale was used for measuring verbal abuse (Jeong, B & Choi, J. 2015). The coping scale was used for measuring coping strategies (Wright, M & Novin, S. 2010). The data was Pearson’s correlation analysis was performed to measures the direction and strength between different variables. Correlation analysis of perceived verbal abuse, academic performance and coping strategies. Result indicated that there is a negative relationship between verbal abuse and academic performance. Result which shows weak relationship between academic performance and coping strategies. The finding empirically established that parents are trained to avoid verbal abuse with their children. There should be a training of coping strategies for children in every school to increase their coping strategies. Because parental abuse affects children who have less coping strategies on their academic performance. According to research, there is a negative relationship between parental abuse and children's academic performance. Those children’s academic performance is lower than that of children who are subjected to less verbal abuse and criticism from their parents.

Keywords: Verbal abuse, Academic performance, coping strategies