Family environment, life satisfaction and resilience among housewives of military and civil professionals

Pages: 1993-1997
Ankit More and V. R. Shinde (Department of Psychology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra)

The aim of this study was to assess the difference among Military Personnels’ housewives and Civil Professionals’ housewives on family environment, life satisfaction and resilience among housewives. Through purposive sampling, the data of military and civilian professional’s housewives (n=80) was collected in the age group (mean age=32.4yrs) from the Pune city. The tools used in this research were Family environment scale(Bhatia & chadha,1993), Resilience Scale (Wagnild & Young, 2003) Life satisfaction (Srivastava & Alam Q.G). Results suggests that Military personnel’s housewives were low on Cohesion (t=13.58, p<0.01), Expressiveness (t=5.67, p<0.01), Conflicts (t=11.18, p<0.01), Acceptance and caring (t=11.55, p<0.01), Independence (t=6.71, p<0.01), Active-Recreational Orientation (t=9.33, p<0.01), Organization (t=6.54, p<0.01), Control (t=10.93, p<0.01), Life satisfaction (t=3.22, p<0.01), compared to Civil Professional's Housewives. On contrary, Military personnel's were found high on Resilience (t=-3.59, p<0.01) compared to Civil professional's housewives.