A study of maternal attachment of mothers towards to their children

Pages: 887-891
Poonam Jagdish Varma (Department of School Counseling, School of Scholar, Kaulkhed, Akola, Maharashtra)

The basic aims of present study were to study the attachment of mother with their children according to the nature of work of the mother and to find out the link between sex (male / female) and the attachment of the mother. The sample used for the study was 360 mothers selected by purposive randomized sampling design. Maternal Attachment Scale was used for data collection prepared by Borse. The results of the present study show that the main effect of Nature of mothers work is not significant (F = 0.06, p > 0.05) As per the means of attachment scores are 69.83 and 70.17 respectively, for the working and non-working mothers, its shows that nature of mothers employment has no effect on attachment. Second result shows that means of attachment scores are 68.36 and 71.65 respectively for the boys based mothers and girls based mothers. The main effect of sex based of mothers family (Table 21) is significant for attachment (F = 6.19, p < 0.05) significant. The girls based mothers scored higher on attachment than boys based mothers.