A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON MARITAL ADJUSTMENT AND LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG RETIRED COUPLES
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Date
2019
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MPUT, UDAIPUR
Abstract
Marriage is a beautiful relationship in which two people live together and
faces so many hurdles together, live so many precious memories together. In marriage
two people need to fully understand each other and give their best to make their
relationship last forever. The present study was undertaken to assess the marital
adjustment, to find out the level of life satisfaction among retired couples and to
compare life satisfaction and marital adjustment of single and dual earner retired
couples. The total sample for present study was consisted of 60 retired couples that
was 30 single earners and 30 dual earners (60 Husbands and 60 wives) belonging to
the age range of 60+ years from empty nest stage of family life cycle. A self prepared
background information proforma was used to collect the information regarding the
personal and background aspects of the subjects. Marital adjustment scale developed
by Tiwari et.al. (2017) with some modifications was administered on the subjects to
assess the marital adjustment. Life satisfaction scale developed by Ansari (2014) was
used with essential adaptations to assess life satisfaction of the subjects. The data
obtained were analyzed in the light of objectives set for the present investigation by
applying suitable statistical tests. Major findings of the study indicated that majority
of the couples had average level of marital adjustment and high level of life
satisfaction respectively. It can be seen that more wives were fell in the average level
of marital adjustment. There was a significant difference found between single and
dual earner retired couples regarding overall and in dimensions i.e. physical and
economical aspect. Single husbands and wives too had a significant difference in
overall and dimensions i.e. physical and emotional aspect. There was non- significant
difference observed between dual earner husbands and wives except in emotional
aspect. Husbands were highly satisfied with their life as compare to their spouse.
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Non- significant difference was found in single and dual earner couples with regard to
overall life satisfaction but for health and financial status, routine activities, personal
achievements and social relationship dimensions they were found to be significantly
different. There was a significant difference found between single earner husbands
wives life satisfaction in overall and dimensions i.e. personal and financial status, ,
routine activities, personal achievements and social relationship. The dual earner
husbands and wives had non- significant level difference except the dimensions i.e.
physical and health status. There was also a significant difference between overall
marital adjustment and life satisfaction of retired couples. In that husband’s results
depicted a significance level of difference in their marital adjustment and life
satisfaction and the similar results were seen in the case of overall assessment of
wives. Thus it can be concluded that marital adjustment and life satisfaction are
interrelated and interdependent and affected by gender and occupation also.
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A comparative study on marital adjustment and life satisfaction among retired couples
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Rathore P. And Tiwari G.