Empty nest syndrome, marital adjustment and coping strategies among mid life Indian couples

Pages: 218-221
Nishant Choudhary(Psychiatry, PBM Hospital, Bikaner, Rajasthan)
Radha Sain(Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

Middle age is the period of human adulthood that precede the onset of old age. In middle age, the relative potencies of past, present, and future are changed as the person increasingly directs effort to the process of recollection of the past, rather than expectation of the future. In the middle age most of couples experience empty nest stage, it is a event in which parents experience feelings of sadness and loss when the last child leaves home. When their children leave home for the study, parents have to stay home alone without routine activities with their children. Indeed, empty nest stage having positive and negative effects on previously happy marital relationships, but they used some coping strategies for the came out from the negative emotions. In the study marital adjustment, coping strategies and empty nest syndrome scale has been used for this purpose. To fulfill these objectives, 80 couples (male-female) those living without children were selected from metro cities through purposive sampling method. Present study shows negative correlation between empty nest and marital adjustment in females and positive correlation found with coping strategies in male and females.