Mother’s Employment and Aggression of Board Students: A comparative Study

Abstract

The present study aimed to find out the difference in the aggression level of Board Students of employed and non-employed mothers. A sample of 200 students was taken from five CBSE affiliated schools of Pithoragarh district(Uttarakhand). Personal data schedule along with the aggression scale (pal and Naqvi (2000)were administered to all participants. Stratified random sampling was used to select the sample. t-test was applied to check the level of significance between the two groups. Significant difference was found between the male and female adolescents of 10thstandard of employed mothers and even betweenthe male and female adolescents of12thstandard of employed mothers.Male and female adolescentsof 12thstandard of non-employed mother have also shown significant difference on the level of aggression. In all the three cases male adolescents have shown higher aggression than female adolescents.