Abstract
The present study intends to examine marital adjustment and psychological well-being among working and non-working women. The study was carried out on a purposive sample of 40 participants. Marital adjustment inventory and Ruff’s Medium Form of Psychological Well-Being Scale was administered on forty working and non-working female participants. Results revealed that working and non-working women did not differ from each other on marital adjustment as well as on psychological well-being but on few dimensions of psychological wellbeing. The findings have been discussed in the light of relevant research evidences.
Highlights
The present study intends to examine marital adjustment and psychological well-being among working and non-working women
Nathawat and Mathur (1993) found that working women reported significantly better marital adjustment and subjective wellbeing than housewives; they scored higher than housewives in general health, life satisfaction and self-esteem measures
The objective of the study was to explore the nature of marital adjustment and psychological well-being in working and non-working female as well as their in spouses too
Summary
The present study intends to examine marital adjustment and psychological well-being among working and non-working women. Results revealed that working and non-working women did not differ from each other on marital adjustment as well as on psychological well-being but on few dimensions of psychological wellbeing. Nathawat and Mathur (1993) found that working women reported significantly better marital adjustment and subjective wellbeing than housewives; they scored higher than housewives in general health, life satisfaction and self-esteem measures. Kausar (2003) studied the effect of personality traits and socio-economic status on marital adjustment in working women and found no difference between marital adjustment of working women of low, middle and high socio-economic background and attributed that personality trait could be the factor liable for the marital adjustment in working and non-working female rather being the socio-economic factor. Similar non-significant marital differences in working and non-working women of Port Harcourt metropolis was reported by Nigeria- Tamunoimama Jamabo and Ordu (2012)
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