Date of Award:

5-1969

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Human Development and Family Studies

Department name when degree awarded

Marriage and Family Relations

Committee Chair(s)

C. Jay Skidmore

Committee

C. Jay Skidmore

Committee

Jay D. Schaneveldt

Committee

Don C. Carter

Committee

Gail Johnson

Abstract

The effects of maternal employment, as contrasted with maternal nonemployment, on the scholastic performance of children were studied using a sample of 80 Mount Ogden Junior High seventh grade students and their mothers. The 80 mothers concerned met the criterion for employment by having worked a forty-hour week outside the home the first six years their child attended school or the criteria of nonemployment by having never engaged in paid employment outside the home for the first six years of their child's schooling.

Of nine areas tested between the two groups no significant difference was found concerning grade point average, reading achievement scores, absenteeisms, I.Q., conduct scores, education of the mother, and the number of hours that the mother and child spent together on a school day. A significant difference at the .01 level was found when comparing the number of children in the family of employed mothers (3.3 children) to the families of nonemployed mothers (4.5 children). A high positive correlation was found between the mother's attitude toward her work or nonwork status and the child's scholastic achievement. It was noted that the study of attitude, in itself, was not sufficient. Attitudes must be pursued in terms of their manifestation in the home, whether they be positively or negatively expressed, and it must be determined whether or not a child in grades one to six can perceive and interpret these manifestations realistically.

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