A Comparative Psychosocial Frame of Happiness, Relationship and Narcissism of Varied Marital Status of Aged Men

An attempt has been made to provide an understanding of the personality profile of elderly males belonging to different marital status in terms of certain selected psychosocial correlates. The present study probes into the fact whether or not marital status acts as an inevitable determinant in influencing the personality content in terms of happiness, relationship, and narcissism of aged individuals. A total of two hundred elderly individuals (men) belonging to each group, namely, married, widower, divorcee, bachelor were assessed on the above mentioned variables by applying suitable standardized scales. Significant results were found out with respect to all the dimensions of selected variables. Profile differences among elderly personnel revealed that Married males have higher scores in happiness, healthy dependency, authority, self-sufficiency in comparison to the other counterparts namely widower, divorcee and bachelor aged. Bachelor aged receives the higher mean magnitude in case of destructive overdependence of relationship, superiority, exhibitionism, exploitativeness, vanity, entitlement and overall narcissism than divorcee, married and widower sub samples. On the criteria of dysfunctional detachment divorced aged positioned themselves at top than married, widower and bachelor counterparts. Widowers have lower scores in happiness, authority, self-sufficiency, vanity and overall narcissism than the other counterparts.