Effect of Maternal Coping Ability on Coping Ability of Adolescent Sons and Daughters

The paper aims to ascertain the influence of the maternal coping ability on the adolescent coping ability. The methodology used was to correlate the maternal coping ability and the adolescent coping ability of the children. The tool used was the Adolescent Coping Scale on the sample of 244 adolescent children in the age group of 13 to 16 yrs and the same too was adapted for their 244 middle aged 30 to 48 years mothers. Results indicated that there was positive effect of total coping ability of mothers on adolescents. In other words if maternal coping ability was high the adolescents also showed high level of coping ability.