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The need to assess the role of mothers as primary caregiver becomes important to study as it suggests various dimensions of growth and development of young adults. Self is continuously growing both negatively and positively. Young adults are important population to study as their self is now more exposed to find more meaning to life in terms of value formation, forming healthy relations, a balanced self internally and externally. Self-concept is what beliefs, values, a person forms for himself over the period. It is influenced by parents, environment, social environment majority in growing years of the child. Looking specifically for this paper, employed mothers versus non-employed mothers is used as a parameter to assess the self-concept of young adults. Total sample of 100 Young Adults are used to study, age group 18-25 years. Self-Concept scale developed by K.P. Nimbalkar, comprises of 40 items assessing various dimensions of self-concept. Statistics measures of mean, standard deviation and t-test is used to analyse the data. The findings suggest that there is a significant difference on the level of the self-concept of young adults of working mothers and non-working mothers (t-0.048, p<0.05). The self-concept of young adults of working mothers are more than the self-concept of young adults of non-working mothers.