Personality Differences of Adolescents with Working Mothers

Personality Differences of Adolescents with Working MothersResearch proposal onA comparative study on record of adolescents between mold and non working mother in BangladeshShinthia parvinSUMMARYThe present study get out conduct to investigate whether thither ordain any difference in personality of adolescence between working or non-working mother in Bangladesh. For this purpose 100 students bounceing take from different argonas of Dhaka metropolis where 50 students mother is home platewife and 50 students mother is working women. Each of the group leave alone barrack regarding their age, educational qualification and socio-economic status. The information will collect by means of two questionnaire (1) questionnaire for participants personal information and (2) Eysenck personality Questionnaire (EPQ). The age group of the participants was between 12 to 18 years. The statistical treatment of the data will do by t-test. The hypotheses of this research assumed that thither are differences in personality of adolescence between working or non- working mother,indicating there would be a difference among the four dimension of the personality like extraversion (E) ,neuroticism (N) , Psychoticism (P) , and Lie scale (L) , in the two groups.IntroductionAdolescence is the period of life from late youngsterhood until sensible growth is relatively complete and also marks the ancestry of early adulthood. Age 13 finished 16 is considered early adolescence and 17 through 21 is late adolescence (Wolman, 1989). The term adolescence is commonly accustomd to absorb the transitional stage of physical and mental development between childhood and adulthood. There is no matchless scientific definition of adolescence or set age boundary. There is a key development smorgasbord that nearly all adolescents experience during their transition from childhood to adulthood. This time frame, however, not only describes a real diverse reality, but adolescence varies cons iderably across cultures, over time, and within single(a)s (Kaplan, 2004).Personality is dynamic which depends on brass instrument within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his or her unique adjustment to his environment .personality is what a man rattling is (Allport,1975) .Personality can be defined as the unique pattern of behavioral and mental processes that characterize an individual and the individuals interactions with the environment (Crider others, 1993). Each man is individual to the dimensions of personality.Because of this difference in personality several(prenominal) women wanted only to look after their family and some women wanted to engage in work after- schooltime(prenominal) of their home.Veroff and fello (1970) mentioned that the aim of the women who shake off professional values are education and working life, whereas the aim of the family associate house women are marriage and bringing up their children.French and lesses (1964) have shown in their research that the ancient wag based on women who Have definite goals demonstrate good skill when they play their role as a wife and as a mother.Majority of Bangladeshi women play a role as a housewife more(prenominal) than a working women, but the women who are residing in the cities are beginning to establish their own profession. Huq (1981) has shown in a research that 55% of working women in the town are the principle earning person of the family, 20% work for filling up the shortage of each others income, 6% work to pass their time, 12% work for utilizing their education and 4% work for enjoying their freedom through their profession. Yet, most of the women are still housewives and the numbers of working women are less in number.Bangladeshi purchase order considers motherhood the most desirable role for the women. And family responsibilities are more important for women than careers (Khan Amanullah ),1998 . Miller (1975) saw that a mothers job creates a n egative influence on their child.Traditionally Bangladeshi women work within the family structure. The working women have to work both within the family and in their work place. So it creates more stress on them. It can also affect childrens life. Islam Rahman (1991) found that the housewife mothers make their children more dependent than working mothers and they become more protective of their fe young-begetting(prenominal) child than of their male child and encourages the male child to develop their language skill .on the other hand, a working mother makes their male child more dependent than their female child and greatly influence them to develop their language skill .The guesswork of this research assumed that there are differences in personality of adolescents between working and non-working mother, indicating there would be a difference among four dimensions of the personality like Extraversion (E), Neuroticism (N), psychoticism (P), and Lie scale (L), in the two groups.Aims The aim of this research project is to Understand adolescents personality. Investigate there will any differences in personality of adolescents between working and non-working mother.Justification/RationaleAdolescence is a precise critical and transitional period of life span of a person. In that time, adolescents have to cope with their physical, social, psychological changes that is why they have to face a lot of stressful situation such as family, school and peer group pressure which effect their life. Sometimes, adolescents may fall down from their mainstream because of anger, life stress, and lack of instinct which is threatening to their development. The findings of the study will be helpful to understand the status of personality of the adolescents. The study would have some applied values and the study would introduce new knowledge about personality and its related of other problems of adolescence period. Therefore, this study will help us to provide such information whi ch is very ingrained for mental health workers, psychologists, sociologists, governments, NGOs and policy makers to take effective steps to facilitate adolescent development.MethodParticipants50 working womens child and 50 non-working womens child will take as a sample of the present research. The samples will collect from different places of Dhaka city. The age range of the student will between 12 to 18 years. Their educational qualifications will from class vii to HSC level. The professions of the working mother will school teacher, college teacher, government service holder, doctor, nurse, and banker.InstrumentsTwo types of questionnaire will use. First a demographic questionnaire will give to get the personal information of the participants like age, educational qualification, socioeconomic status, monthly family income, etc. The second questionnaire will Eyesenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) Bengali version(translated standardized byRahman in 1980). EPQ contained one hundre d and one items. Both questionnaires will give to the participants individually.ProcedureThe sample will collect from the different areas of Dhaka city. In this study two types of questionnaire will use, at first questionnaire will be given to collect participants personal information and EPQ is the self-directed questionnaire. onwards responding the participants will assure that full confidentiality will be maintained. The participants will answer the questions by circling the yes or no answer. For each positive item, score 1 indicates yes and 0 for no. Reverse scoring will use for the negative items. The sums of the scores of all items will the total score of the scale for an individual.