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MATERNAL STRESS AND STRESS OF CHILDREN
It seems logical that if a mother is under significant stress, child may be at an increased risk of developing problems. Maternal stress can spill over and affect children right from prenatal period throughout the child’s developmental age. Today women are facing more stress due to their employment...
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Format: | Printed Book |
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REVIEW OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
2014
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Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005919.pdf |
Summary: | It seems logical that if a mother is under significant stress, child may be at an
increased risk of developing problems. Maternal stress can spill over and affect children
right from prenatal period throughout the child’s developmental age. Today women are
facing more stress due to their employment outside and the additional burden of
housekeeping and child care with no opportunity for shared responsibility seen in joint
families. The additional stress of caring for children can, at times, make parents feel
angry, anxious, or just plain “stressed out”. These tensions are inevitable part of family
life, but if parents do not know ways to cope with their stress they feel overwhelmed by
them. Today’s parents are found to be under severe stress most of the time due to a
number of reasons and this could be one of the reasons for the growing stress in children
and youth. Hence it will be interesting to know whether there is any relationship with the
stress of children and adults particularly that of parents and teachers. The present research
study was carried out with an objective to understand the influence of maternal stress on
the stress level of school children in Thiruvananthapuram and Abu Dhabi. The results
revealed that the stress of children increases with the increase in the stress of their mothers
indicating a direct positive relationship. |
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Physical Description: | p.85-95 Vol. XV No.2 • January - June 2014 |