Relationship between Parenting Sense
of Competence and Life Satisfaction
among Working and Non Working
Mothers: Moderating Role of the social
support
Presnted by: Adeela khurshid
Supervised : Dr.Nadia shafique
Introduction
• A mother is particularly important not because she has special
skills but because she is with her children for a much greater
time than any other person.
• Her values reflects a very strong influence on attitudes,
abilities and behaviour of children (Priyankaaeri & Devinajain,
2010).
Aim of the study
• To find out a relationship between parenting
sense of competence and life satisfaction
among working and non working mothers.
• To find out moderating role of the social
support among working and non working
mothers.
Rationale of the study
• In previous researches social support has not been
use as a moderator with the Parenting sense of
competence and life satisfaction .
• Very limited work has been done in the relationship
of these variables.
• Only few studies have been done with comparison
of working and none working mothers in Pakistan
Conceptual frame work
Social support
Parenting sense of
competence
Life satisfaction
Method
• Research design
– A cross sectional research design will be used.
• Sample Size
– Total number of sample will be 300.(150 working
and 150 non working mothers.)
– purposive sampling technique will be used.
Inclusion criteria:
• mothers with age range 25 to 40 years having
children from 2 to 11 years will be included.
• Exclusion criteria:
•
those mothers who are single and divorcee, have any
psychological problem will not be included.
• Those mothers who have any physical chronic
disease
Scale
Author & year
Items
Multidimensional social
support
Zimet, Dahlem,Farley(1988)
12
Parenting sense of
competence
Gibaud-Wallston &
Wandersman(1978)
17
Life satisfaction
Diener & Emmons,1985
5
Analysis
• SPSS 21 will be used for data analysis.
• t-Test
• Moderation
Implications
• The study will highlight the role of parenting,
unable the psychologist to conduct programs
related to parenting style, mother counseling,
family counseling, for betterment of their
mental health.
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Zimet, G. D., Dahlem, N. W., Zimet, S. G., & Farley, G. K. (1988). The multidimensional
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Gilmore, L., & Cuskelly, M. (2009). Factor structure of the Parenting Sense of
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