FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND SOCIALIZATION OF CHILDREN WITH EMPLOYED AND NON-EMPLOYED MOTHERS

• Autor(a) principal: da Paz, Maria das Graças Torres
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: de Alencar, Eunice Maria Lima Soriano
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17036

The study was designed to investigate, among employedand non-employed mothers, the woman's satisfaction withher work, the reasons that lead her to work, the mother's perceptionof the husband's attitudes regarding the care of the family andengagement with the children, the extent to which the mother fostersthe child's independence, main authority in family and differentialpractices of rearing, according to the mother's perception.The samples consisted of 30 full-time, 30 part-time mothers, and30 non-employed mothers. A questionnaire was used to collectthe data. It was observed that the main reason for mother's employmentwas an association of financial need with self-realization.Non-employed mothers felt less satisfied, while employedmother had a more positive interaction with children, whose independencewas also more stressed. Comparing the mother's perception,it was observed that employed mother's husbands weremore involved with the children's socialization. It was also observedthat obedience was more frequent among female childrenin all groups, according to the mother's report. The data suggestthat mother's employment has an effect on family relations, on thehusband's behavior at home and on children's independence.