Working Parents and Adolescents Stress: An Analysis in Bhubaneswar

Abstract

The husband and wife doing two jobs has become the norm in today's expanding globe. Numerous studies conducted at the national and international levels show the negative effects of working parents' circumstances on the psychology of young and adolescent children, which can result in stress and sadness. In this study we tried to analyze adolescents stress due to working parents. We have taken a sample of 100 students from different public schools of Bhubaneswar. The extent of stress has been estimated by comparing the psychology of 50 students whose both parents are working with that of the corresponding psychology of another 50 students whose father is working only. It is found that even if both parents working, mothers used to give more time for different activities. It is seen that mothers used to give a total of 8hours per day which is much more than a father (4.2hrs). Also it has been found that due to mother’s profession the opportunity lost is very less and adolescents stress is not due to working mothers’ profession.