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:: Volume 2, Issue 2 (Vol2 No2 Summer 2015 - 2015) ::
J Child Ment Health 2015, 2(2): 9-19 Back to browse issues page
The Comparison of Children with Working Mothers and Children with Housekeeping Mothers in Family Drawing
Parviz Fadakar , Abdolbaset Mahmoudpour * 1, Ahmad BorjAli , Mohamad Ali Yazdanpanah
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Background and purpose: Factors such as women’s higher education, tendency to financial independence, social cooperation, and social and cultural development have leaded to increased number of working mothers. Present study aimed to compare children with working mothers and children with housekeeping mothers in terms of their family drawing.

Method: Present study was a descriptive research. Study sample consisted of 120 six to twelve years old male and female students (60 with working mothers and 60 with stay-at-home mothers) who were studying in schools of  Tehran city in 1393-94 academic year, and were selected using cluster sampling method. Participants completed Halse’s Draw-A-Family-Test. Each child was interviewed individually after the test. Data were analyzed using chi-square test.

Results: Results of chi-square test showed that comparing to boys with stay-at-home mothers and girls with working mothers, boys with working mothers had greater tendency to omit themselves, made their mothers less important, made their fathers more important, and showed unconscious identification with their fathers. Moreover, comparing to girls with housekeeping mothers, girls with working mothers revealed more father omission, made their mothers more important, and showed greater unconscious identification with their mothers.

Conclusion: According to our findings, we can conclude that male and female children with working mothers showed emotionally different reactions to their mothers’ employment status.

Keywords: Family drawing, working mother, stay-at-home mother, child, employment
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2015/05/6 | Accepted: 2015/07/14 | Published: 2015/09/1
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Fadakar P, Mahmoudpour A, BorjAli A, Yazdanpanah M A. The Comparison of Children with Working Mothers and Children with Housekeeping Mothers in Family Drawing. J Child Ment Health 2015; 2 (2) :9-19
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Volume 2, Issue 2 (Vol2 No2 Summer 2015 - 2015) Back to browse issues page
فصلنامه سلامت روان کودک Quarterly Journal of Child Mental Health
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