Effect of maternal employment on children's home and emotional adjustment

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2007 in the subject Sociology - Relationships and Family, grade: A, Patna Women's College (Patna University), language: English, abstract: An incidental cum purposive sample of 100 school students (age range 13 to 15 years) was selected to conduct the study showing the effect of maternal employment on their children's home and emotional adjustment level. The important research tool used was HSAI(High School Adjustment Inventory). The findings on the whole indicate that the children of working mothers (CWMs) exhibit better home adjustment than the children of non-working mothers (CNWMs) and there was no significant difference between the CWMs and CNWMs on the measure of emotional adjustment.