Does Your Career Affect Your Child’s Smile?- Effects of Age and Maternal Employment on Aggression in Adolescents

The present study examines impact of maternal employment and age on aggression level in adolescents. The sample consists of 100 adolescents of the mothers joining employment in the first year of child’s age, 100 adolescents of mother joining employment after the child had turned 5 years or above and 100 adolescents of unemployed mothers. The sample aged between 10-18 years, residing in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat. Aggression scale by R.L. Bharadwaj is used to collect data. Regression Analysis with dummy variables is used for statistical analysis. Results of the study reveal that aggression level in adolescents rises with increase in age thus they are positively correlated. Also maternal employment during the 1st year of child’s life shows higher level of aggression in their adolescent age. Later employment of mothers show least level of aggression in their adolescent, even lesser then the adolescents of unemployed mothers. Maternal employment per se does not have effects on aggression level in adolescents.