title: The effect of maternal employment on the elementary and junior high school students' mental health in Maku.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Most experts view the childhood period as a foundation for shaping the individuals' fundamental future characteristics and behaviors. They believe that parents' personality and behavior quality exert a greater effect on the development of a child's personality than other factors. Given the mothers' role in children's mental health and considering the fact that children are a nation's future makers, the present study was designed to investigate the impact of maternal employment on students' mental health in Maku.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present study is descriptive and cross-sectional, and the population of the study encompasses all students in the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades (n=583) who are studying in 2013-2014 academic year in Maku. General Heath Questionnaire was employed for gathering data, and the SPSS software was used for analyzing the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results of the study indicated that there was a significant difference between the mental health problems, somatic problems, social functioning, anxiety, and depression of the students with employed and non-employed mothers. In other words, the students with non-working mothers experienced greater mental disorders than those with working mothers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  According to the findings of this study, it can be concluded that children with working mothers showed a better mental health than non-working mothers' children.
authors.affiliation: Tabri university of medical sciences. fatemeh.bakhtari@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Fatemeh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bakhtari Aghdam
authors.forename: Sakineh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ahmadzadeh
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: HassanAlizadeh
authors.forename: Fatemeh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ebrahimi
authors.forename: Leila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sabzmakan
authors.forename: Zeinab
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Javadivala
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008603:Mental Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires