Children Abilities to Regulate their Selves of On-Job Women and Housewives

Abstract

The study aimed to find out the difference between self-regulation and social adjustment in the children of on-job women and housewives. The study was quantitative in nature and was delimited to higher secondary students of Rawalpindi division of Punjab. The sample of the study comprised of six hundred students of on-job women and housewives each of private and public colleges of Rawalpindi division. A self-developed questionnaire was managed to collect data about self-regulation and social adjustment of students. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics with the help of SPSS version 22. Chi-Square test statistics and Pillai's Trace statistics were performed. The study concluded that children of on-job women have more ability to regulate their self as compared to children of housewives. It was also concluded that children of on-job women are socially well adjusted as compared to children of housewives.