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PARENTAL STRESS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SINGLE MOTHER AND SINGLE FATHER OF JAMMU DISTRICT
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Index Terms: Parental Stress, Single parent families, Jammu District, India
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Abstract: Stress is very familiar condition faced by single parents when they are unable to bear the risk involving higher home work. A single parent usually refers to a parent either mother or father who has most of the day to day responsibilities in the raising of the child or children, which would categorize them as the dominant caregiver who is not living with a spouse or partner, or those who are not married. The objective of the study was to assess and compare the parental stress of mother and father of single parent families from urban and semi-urban areas of Jammu District (J&K), India. Multistage sampling technique was used to collect the desirable data of the study. Data was collected by using interview schedule (self devised) and Stress Index for parents of Adolescent (standardized) from 60 parents (30 single mother and 30 single father) purposively selected. The data entering was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 17.0. Findings showed that the total mean age of the parents were 46 years. They were studied in higher standard and were working from outside the home. The mean score of father personal monthly income was higher than the income of mothers. Most of them were belonging to joint family. Death was the main reason of their singlehood and they were spent 3-5 years as a single parent. They had 2 children. Mothers showed more parental stress than fathers. There was significant differences were noted in all domain of parental stress between mothers and fathers except in relationship with spouse. Overall mothers showed higher mean score in parental stress than fathers. In adolescent domain, fathers show higher stress than mothers. In parent domain, mothers scored higher mean in parental stress than father. This highlights that single mother was felt more stressed with their single life than father.
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Dr. ARPANA LANGEH & Prof. SARIKA MANHAS (April-2023). PARENTAL STRESS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SINGLE MOTHER AND SINGLE FATHER OF JAMMU DISTRICT . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 8(4), f367-f379. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2304541.pdf
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Volume 8 Issue 4, April-2023
Pages : f367-f379
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Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_192290
Published Paper Id: IJNRD2304541
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Research Area: Science
Author Type: Indian Author
Country: JAMMU, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, India
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