Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Navshad Ahmad Wani ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Govt College Boys, Baramulla, J & K, IN

Abstract

Marriage is a socially and legally sanctioned union of sexually intimate adults. It is a socio-cultural institution. The vast majority of people continue to see marriage as important, but the standards against which they are assessing the case for marriage appear to have changed. Whereas marriage once was regarded as an inevitable and central aspect of life, now alternatives such as single parenting, cohabitation, and divorce have become acceptable. The institution of marriage originated to give legal and customary sanction to the sexual relations. 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. A huge body of research is available on the subject, yet it is not clear to what extent the psychological issues have been dealt throughout the progress of its study. One of the oldest institutions of the human civilization, marriage has always been studied from sociological context, yet in the past five to ten decades of specific psychological research, the study of adjustment has had a noticeable progress. Here is an endeavor to review the available research on marital adjustment, the gaps in the research and the scope for further research in the area of marital adjustment.

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Navshad Ahmad Wani ¹, Kaiser Ahmad Dar ², Riyaz Yaqoob Wani ³

Affiliations
1 Govt. College for Women, Srinagar, Kashmir, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, IN
3 Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology Nodia, New Delhi, IN

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Marital Adjustment, Socio-Cultural Determinants.

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