- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Working mothers' attitudes toward domestic and work roles a case study of some working mothers in Nigeria, 1984
- Creator:
- Adebayo, Olayemi
- Date of Original:
- 1984-02-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
dissertations - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This study aimed to determine mothers' attitudes toward occupa-tional work roles and domestic roles in Bida, Nigeria. The variables used were feelings of life satisfaction, job status, attitudes toward occupational work roles, a wife's perceptions of her husband's attitude toward her work roles and attitudes toward domestic work roles. Systematic random sampling was used to select the study group for this research. A sample of sixty (60) working mothers was selected out of a population of one hundred and twenty (120) at the Federal Poly�technic, Bida, Nigeria. The questionnaire used for data collection had three sub-scales which measured the mother's attitudes toward employment and domestic work roles, and the strain which may be generated by the interaction between members of this role set. The main findings of the survey showed that there was a signifi-cant difference between the attitudes of professional and non-professional mothers. The non-professional mothers tend to show that their families take all that they do at home for granted. Also, there was a strong relationship between job status and the feeling that the family appre�ciates all that a mother does at home. There was no significant relationship between life satisfaction and attitudes toward occupational roles, but there was a significant relationship between a mother's working hours that do not allow for her child care and her belief that her boss takes the work she does for granted. However, there was no significant relationship between a wife's perception of her husband's attitude toward her work roles and her home role attitudes. It is concluded that among the sample of women used in this study, job status has no relevance to their attitudes toward the roles the mothers perform at home. However, there is a relationship between job status and family appreciation of what a mother does at home. Finally, the findings showed that attitudes toward occupational work roles have no relationship with feelings of life satisfaction.
Degree type: thesis
Degree name: Master of Arts (MA)
Granting institution: Atlanta University
Department: Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Advisor: Watson, Wilbur H. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1984_adebayo_olayemi
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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