The present study was conducted with the intend to study student alienation in relation to their parental behaviour. The study was conducted to a sample of 563 college arts students of second year degree course from govt. degree colleges of Jammu Division. Student alienation scale prepared by Dr. R.R. Sharma (1988) and three dimensional parental inventory prepared by Dr. Hardeo Ojha (1993) was used to collect data. In the present study only one scale of three dimensional parental behaviour inventory is used. The collected data was analyzed with one way analysis of variance. The results of the study showed that students having high restrictive parental behaviour are more alienated and those students who are having very highly permissive are become norm less i.e. one dimension of alienation.