Marital Adjustment and Domestic Violence: A Correlation Study

The purpose of present study was to find out relationship between marital adjustment and domestic violence among women. For this, a sample of 300 women (age range 25 years to 55 years) was taken from rural and urban areas of Varanasi (U.P.). Marital Adjustment Questionnaire (MAQ) by Kumar and Rohtagi (1996) and Domestic Violence Check-List (DVC) by Pandey (2012) were used as tools of the study. Coefficients of correlation reveled a significant negative relationship between marital adjustment and all the dimension of domestic violence including total domestic violence. Values of obtained r were, 441, 388, 540, 540 and 452 for Physical, Sexual, Psychological, Economic abuse and Total Domestic Violence respectively with Marital Adjustment. The Result indicates that domestic violence inhibits marital adjustment and vice versa.