Influence of Parental Occupation and Level of Education on Stress, Anxiety and Adjustment among School Children

Fast pace of life, highly competitive school environment and parental pressure brought child life cumbersome and full of stress and anxiety. These lead to maladjustment in different spheres of life such as home, social, health, emotion and educational problems. The present study is an attempt to investigate the effect of parental occupation and parental education on the experience of stress anxiety and adjustment among children. The sample consists of 800 children from different schools of Jamshedpur. The age range was 10-18 years. They belong to middle-level socio economic status. Three different scales were administered. Student Stress Scale developed and standardized by Akhtar, (2011), Bell Adjustment Inventory developed and standardized by Bell (1934) and adopted by Mohsin and Shamshad, Sinha Anxiety Scale (1961) developed and standardized by Sinha were administered. The t-test was applied to see the significance of difference among various comparison groups. The results revealed that Students belonging to working mothers experienced more stress and anxiety, having problems in their daily hassles. Adjustment of children belongs to working mothers are quite difficult as compared to their counterpart. It was found that high parental education brings better adjustment process. However, there was no significance of difference among students belonging to graduate and non graduate parents.