The relationship between maternal employment and self-sufficiency third grade female students in Fasa

Pages: 371-375
Razieh Zarepour Nasirabadi (Behavioral Sciences (Preschool Education), Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran)
Firouz Rezaian (Behavioral Sciences (Preschool Education), Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran)
Jahangir Mehrafsha (Behavioral Sciences (Preschool Education), Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran)

The present study is an applied research that has been done by descriptive-correlation method and its purpose was to investigate the relationship between maternal employment and self-sufficiency and self-esteem of third grade elementary school female students in the academic year 2013-2014. The statistical population of the present study included all female students in the third grade of education in Fasa city with an approximate number of 385 people. 145 mothers of these students were somehow employed and based on the Georgian and Morgan sample size determination table, 105 students were selected by two-stage cluster sampling as the sample of this study. After performing and collecting Aiseng self-esteem and Wheeler and Led self-sufficiency questionnaires, the researcher examined the hypotheses using Pearson correlation statistical methods and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) using SPSS-18 software. Based on the statistical findings, the following results were obtained: 1- There is a significant relationship between mothers ’employment and students’ self-sufficiency and self-esteem. 2. Working mothers with more than 15 years of experience, their children reported more self-sufficiency and self-esteem than students whose mothers had less than 15 years of experience. Mothers ’employment and mothers’ higher employment history increase the self-sufficiency and self-esteem of third grade female students.