A study of marital adjustment among midlife couples

Pages: 1248-1250
Radha Rani Sain and Rashmi Chowdhry (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

Middle age is considered as the time to change of power, independence and to taking decision for younger generation. In middle life empty nest couples having more time to focus on their marriage relationship and enjoyed the activities, play together and more money to spend on themselves. In this study marital adjustment scale developed by Kumar and Rohatgi has been used for this purpose. To fulfill these objectives, 120 couples (man & women) those living with wards and without wards were selected from metro cities through purposive sampling method. The study shows that high level of marital adjustment, found on those living without wards whereas, low level of marital adjustment is found among couples those living with wards.