Emotional Maturity, Resilience, Parent Adolescent Relationship and Peer Pressure as predictors of Psychological Well-being among adolescents of Indian Working and Non-working Mothers

Abstract

Abstract Happiness and a positive state of well-being are the most desirable goals of all individuals. Every family wants to produce happy, healthy and productive humans. The social environment of the adolescents constitutes of many important factors which can directly impact their well-being. It is important to understand the factors which can greatly influence the psychological well-being of adolescents. The present study has been conducted to explore the predictive role of various individual and environmental factors as emotional maturity, resilience, parent adolescent relationship and peer pressure on the psychological well-being of adolescents of working and non-working mothers and also to assess the differences among adolescents of working and non-working mothers on these variables. The sample was 520 adolescents (260 boys and 260 girls) in the age group of 13-18 years selected purposively from five bigger districts of Punjab in terms of female employment. Psychological well-being Scale, Parenting Scale, Peer Pressure scale, Emotional Maturity Scale and 14-item Resilience Scale were used to collect the data, Step wise multiple regression and t-test were used to analyze the results. All the variables were found to significantly predict the psychological well-being of adolescents. Parent adolescent relationship was found to be the most significant predictor of psychological well-being of adolescents of working and non-working mothers, followed by resilience, peer pressure, and emotional maturity. Adolescents of working and non-working mothers were not found to differ on parent adolescent relationship, peer pressure, emotional maturity and peer pressure. Psychological well-being of adolescents of non-working mothers was found to be better than adolescents of working mothers. The findings has practical implications for the parents, counsellors, teachers to provide positive opportunities for adolescents for enhancing their psychological well-being.