Abstract
Maternal employment has a detrimental effect on adolescent. The influence of maternal employment on adolescence educational and career aspiration is also linked to the mother’s level of satisfaction. The present investigation “A comparative study of personality adjustment of adolescent daughters among working and non-working mothers” conducted 500 subjects in Agra urban. In this study results showed that adolescent daughters of working mother had a greater possessiveness on the decisiveness, responsibility, emotionally, stability, muscularity, friendliness, ego strength, dominance and total personality characteristics of adolescent daughters of non-working mother had a greater possessiveness on heterosexuality curiosity and self- concept personality characteristics. This study also reveals that adolescent daughters of working mothers were more adjusted in home, health, social, emotional, and total adjustment as compared to their non-working mothers’ counterparts.
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