Marital hardiness as a predictor of marital adjustment in professionals with working spouse

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M. Sangeetha and J. Sheela (Department of Psychology, Womens Christian College, Chennai)

The study aims to investigate whether marital hardiness predicts marital adjustment in professionals in the fields of Medicine, Information Technology and Education with a working spouse. An ex-post-facto survey research was adopted for the present study. The sample size for the study was 345 (N=345) of which 116 were males and 229 were females. The age of the individuals who were part of the study was 22 to 58 years. The average age of the husbands was 38.22 years and that of the wives was 34.53 years. The method of purposive sampling was used for the selection of sample. The Marital Hardiness Scale (Sangeetha 2009) and the ABC Scale of Marital Relationship (Nappinnai 2006) were the tools used for the study. The independent sample t-test, One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Pearson’s product-moment correlation and multiple regressions were the statistical techniques used for data analysis. The results show that among professionals in the fields of Medicine, Information Technology and Education with a working spouse profession, gender, type and nature of marriage, type of family, presence of an adolescent child, chronological age, age at marriage, years of marriage and number of children do not contribute to marital adjustment. Marital hardiness is related to marital adjustment. Quality of relationship, a dimension of marital hardiness has emerged as a significant predictor of marital adjustment.