Relationship between Marital Adjustment and Socio-Cultural Determinants

The quest for happiness and joy in humans leads to marriage. Marriage is a lifelong interpersonal relationship between man and woman as husband and wife governed by legal, religious and customary principles. When spouses get along with each other to achieve harmonious working relationship in different areas of their marital life, adjustment is achieved. Hence, the present study was aimed at studying how socio-cultural determinants determine marital adjustment. Three dimensions of marital adjustment- sexual, social and emotional were studied in three groups, viz., husbands, wives, and couples. Sample comprised 150 participants, 50 each in three groups. Marital adjustment was measured by Marital Adjustment Questionnaire (MAQ) developed by Dr Pramod Kumar and Dr (Km) Kanchana Rohtagi. F-value revealed that the entire three groups scored significantly higher on social and emotional dimension of marital adjustment where as no significant difference was found on sexual dimension. Moreover, the three groups differed significantly when compared on all the three dimensions of marital adjustment together.