Dual Career Family and Emotional Development of Adolescents

Abstract

The dual career family is now obviously a global phenomenon. Women are fully part of the work force and majority of them are now combining the home front with their careers. This new development has a chain of effects on the emotional development of adolescents from such families. The study investigated the relationship between dual career family, the reasons for it, the attitude of house helps and emotional development of the adolescents. A total number of 99 adolescents were sampled from children of dual career families while 94 adolescents were sampled from the children of dual earners family. The subjects were randomly selected from Akure and Akungba respectively. The questionnaire consists of 31 items. Three hypotheses were formulated to be tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that adolescents from dual career families are not significantly different in their emotional development from adolescents from dual career families, with t-cal of 0.164 at 0.05 level of significance. This implies that the psychological and emotional needs of the adolescents may not be hindered because their parents are working. Also, the findings revealed that house helps may not be causing emotional disturbances to the adolescents from both homes because of the nature of their parents’ job with t-cal of 0.218.The finding also revealed there is no significant difference in the type of antisocial behaviour involved in by adolescents from both homes with t-cal of 0.036. Adequate recommendations were made based on the findings of the study.