PERSONALITY TRAITS IN CHILDREN OF WORKING AND NON WORKING MOTHERS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Women Empowerment has been stressed since last several years by the government of India. The purpose of this study was to compare the personality traits of working and non-working women. A sample of 60 students of Secondary level were taken from different schools of Bahadurgarh. The Hindi edition of DPI test developed by Dr.Mahesh Bhargave was used for this purpose.?t?test was used as statistical technique in this study. The results highlighted that children of working mothers were less emotionally stable as compared to those of nonworking mothers.Children of working & non-working mothers showed significant differences in all six personality traits measured by the investigator viz. Activity-Passivity; Enthusiastic-Non Enthusiastic; Assertive-Submissive; SuspiciousTrusting; Depressive-Non Depressive and Emotional Stability- Emotional Unstability. The children of non-working women found to be more active, enthusiastic,assertive,trusting & non depressive.