Awareness of Responsibilities, Emotional Balance and Family Adjustment in Children of Working and Non-working Women

During the stage of development, child undergoes a number of physical as well as mental changes which gives rise to a number problems related to emotional, educational, social and other aspect of behavior. Family plays a very important role in the emotional, educational and social development of the child. The child is more readily impressed by the life and example of the mother than that of father. Present study was undertaken to compare the awareness of responsibilities, emotional balance and family adjustment of the children of working and non-working women. The sample was consisted 300 adolescents learning in ninth standard from randomly selected four schools of Nagpur. Out of 300 adolescents, 150 were children of working women and 150 were children of non-working women. A questionnaire was prepared on the basis of five dimensions, namely, proud of mother, expectations from mother, awareness regarding responsibilities, emotional balance and family adjustment. It contains 65 questions. Each item was in the form of a statement about the dimensions, the students indicated their agreement with each of the statement on five point scale. This questionnaire was used for collecting the data. The results revealed that there is no significant difference between the mean proud of mother scores of children of working and non-working women. children of working women are better family adjusted than the children of non-working women.