A Comparative Study on Academic Career Development Stress, Parent Child Relationship and Self Esteem of Female School Students Having Working Mothers and Non-Working Mothers

The present study was an attempt to investigate the academic career development stress, parent child relationship and self esteem among female school students. 45 students having working mothers and 45 students having nonworking mothers aged between 14 to 16 years were selected for the study. Academic career development stress scale, parent child relationship scale and Rosenberg self-esteem scale were administered on the subjects. Statistical analysis of data revealed significant difference between students having working and nonworking mothers regarding the domains pleasure, time management, academic competitiveness and support of academic career stress; protecting, demanding, symbolic reward and loving domain of parent child relationship scale and on self esteem i.e mean score of students having working mothers were significantly higher than students having nonworking mothers. On the other hand, students having non-working mothers were found to be significantly higher on the domains symbolic and object punishment of parent child relationship scale. No significant differences were observed with respect to the domains like difficulty level, course variation, punishment, academic achievement, expectancy from others and test anxiety of academic career stress and on the domains rejection, indifference, object reward and neglecting from parent child relationship scale.