Organizational role stress in relation to marital adjustment among female androgynous university teachers, government doctors and administrative officers

Pages: 945-948
Rekha Gujjar (Cosmopolitans Valia College, Mumbai)
Manju Mehta (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur)

The present study was undertaken to explore the relationship between Organizational role stress and Marital Adjustment among female university teachers, Government doctors and administrative officers with androgynous sex role orientation. A total of 100 female university teachers, 100 female government doctors and 100 female administrative officers from the state of Rajasthan served as sample for the study. To attain the objectives of the study, three psychometric instruments the Bem Sex role Inventory (Bem, 1981) and the Organisational Role Stress Scale (Pareek, 1981) and Marital Adjustment Inventory by Deshpande (1988) were administered to the sample population to obtain data pertaining to the androgynous personality and organizational role stress variables. The data were analysed in terms of the coefficients of correlation. The results of the study revealed that marital adjustment correlated positively with personal inadequacy dimensions of organizational role stress in the case of university teachers and correlated negatively in case of government doctors. It was also found that Organizational role stress and its some components, viz., role stagnation(RS), self-role distance (SRD) and role ambiguity (RA) were negatively and significantly related with marital adjustment among androgynous doctors but were found unrelated among androgynous teachers and administrative officers and total group of working women.