Itagi, SunandaHiremath, Pratibha G.2019-09-232019-09-232015-08http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810128936Couple satisfaction and stress of young married couples in rural and urban Dharwad studied on 120 couples who were randomly selected from 29 kalyan mantaps from urban and rural area. Couple satisfaction index developed by Funk and Rogge (2007), social readjustment rating scale by Holmez and Rahe (1967), marriage stress test by Oz (2010) and socio-economic status scale by Agarwal et al. (2005) along with self structured questionnaire were used for data collection. The study revealed that 68.3 per cent of rural couples had medium level of couple satisfaction while 25 per cent had high and 6.7 per cent were in low couple satisfaction. 78.3 per cent of urban couples had high level of couple satisfaction while 20 per cent medium and 1.7 per cent low couple satisfaction. In case of life event stress, it was noted that 78.3 per cent of rural couples had medium level of stress, while 11.7 per cent had low and 10 per cent had high level of stress. 68.3 per cent of urban couples had low level of life event stress while 26.7 per cent had medium and 5 per cent had high level of stress. 53.3 per cent of rural couples had low level of emotional and physical health stress and 46.7 per cent had high level. 78.3 per cent had low level and 21.7 per cent had high level of emotional and physical health stress among urban couples. However there was highly significant difference found between rural and urban couples with respect to couple satisfaction, life event stress and emotional and physical health stress. This study revealed that duration of marriage, economic status of the couples and number of children did not correlate with couple satisfaction. Husbands of rural area experiencing more stress than their wives. While it was not seen in case of urban group.ennullThesis