The relationship between mother's employment in the early years of childhood, quality of mother-child relationship and perceived social support with social adequacy in adulthood

The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the relationship between mother's employment in the early years of childhood (part-time/full-time), quality of mother-child relationship and perceived social support with social adequacy in adulthood.

The current research method is descriptive correlation (regression). The statistical population of this research was all the female students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in the academic year of 2019-1400, and 105 people were selected as the sample of the research using the available sampling method among all the female students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad who had working mothers in the first 3 years of their lives. And, was selected. The participants completed the Social Adequacy Questionnaire of Fellner et al. (1991), the Multidimensional Social Perceived Scale by Zimmet et al. (1988) and the Mother-Child Relationship Scale by Fine et al. (1983). In order to analyze the data, indicators and methods of descriptive statistics, mean and standard error of the data were used; and inferential statistics were used to obtain Pearson's correlation coefficient and regression by SPSS-26 software.

Based on the obtained data, perceived social support from friends and others, behavioral skills (19%, F=9.162) and family support, cognitive skills (11%, F=8.228) and motivation and expectations (9% predicts F=7.852( are among the components of social adequacy. Among the components of the parent-child relationship, positive affect predicts behavioral skills (10%, F=9.192) and role aversion predicts cognitive skills (11%, F=9.988.(Discussion and

As a result, it can be said that perceived social support and parent-child relationship can predict a person's social adequacy in adulthood.