comparative study of educational status, emotional management and adolescent-parent conflict among adolescents with employed parents and normal teenagers

purpose: the purpose of the present study is comparative study of educational status, emotional management and adolescent-parent conflict among adolescents with employed parents and normal teenagers.

methods: the purpose of the presentstudy was practical and causal-comparative descriptive method has been used. statistical community included 306 adolescents of academic year 2014-15 who were selected by cluster sampling. to obtain data of emotional management research, granefski, karraij and spinhoven (2001) assessment scale of adolescent-parent (asadiunesi et al., 2011) was used. data were analyzed by anova and via spss software.

findings: findings of the research indicate that there is no significant difference between mean scores of students with one employed parent and two employed parents (p<0.05). also, the results suggest that there is significant difference between the mean of negative emotional management in students with one employed parent and two employed parents (p<0.05). in the way that students with one employed parent have less negative emotion regulation (m=41.11) in contrast with students with two employed parents (m=43.44). students with one employed parent have more positive emotion regulation (m=40.27) in contrast with students with two employed parents (m=38.27). also, the results indicate that there is significant difference between the mean of adolescent-parent conflicts among students with one employed parent and two employed parents (p<0.01).

conclusion: it can be concluded that the employment of mother in family system and changing the role of mothers in current families have some consequences and teenagers with two employed parents have considerable negative emotion regulation and parent-adolescent conflict.