Development of Marital Burnout Scale

pAGES: 1068-1074
Ashi Makkar (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur)
Bhawana Arya (Department of Psychology, The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan)
Tejinder Kaur (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

Burnout has been proved to be an important construct in any field where the person invests emotionally. The concept of burnout is believed to also occur outside occupational settings, such as in love and marriage. Therefore, the aim of the study was to develop, introduce and investigate the reliability and aspects of the validity of the Marital Burnout Scale. The Marital Burnout Scale is designed to measure marital burnout among the married couples in India. Sufficient pilot work was carried out on a small sample (n=20) during the development of a scale. Data were gathered via a sample of 80 married individuals of upper middle socio economic status. Content validity was built into the measure to avoid any extraneous content; Face validity was computed that identified items that lacked clarity; Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient for the 28 item- 5-point likert type scale was .97; discrimination index was calculated that discriminated between the groups scoring low and the groups scoring high on marital burnout; Concurrent validity computed was .95 showing a significant correlation between the test and a criterion (in our present study-marital satisfaction). For future research in this area Marital Burnout Scale could be expanded to include more test items.