Quality of life and marital satisfaction in relation to love matched marriage and arranged marriage couples

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L. N. Bunker and Vishnu Narayan Kucheria (Department of Psychology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan)

Marriage is an important institution and the basis of family. The happy and satisfied couples constitute meaningful and mutually satisfying relationship which contributes to Quality of Life. For satisfying this marital satisfaction plays important role. The present study attempts to investigate the relationship between marital satisfaction and quality of life in relation to love matched marriage and arranged marriage couples. A sample of 120 couples (25-40 years) is selected using purposive sampling method. Marital Satisfaction Scale by Fincham and Bradbury Quality of Life by Robin Cohen and Balfour Mount was used to measure marital satisfaction and quality of life among love matched marriage couples and arranged marriage couples. Statistical analysis was done using t-test, Correlation. Results reveal that Love matched female’s shows higher marital satisfaction and quality of life as compared to arranged marriage females. No such difference exists among males of love matched and arranged marriages. Male’s shows higher marital satisfaction as compared to females among arranged marriage couples but no such significant difference was found among males and females of love matched couples. Among love matched marriages females quality of life is higher than that of males. No such gender difference was found among arranged marriage. Negative relationship exists between quality of life and marital satisfaction. Among arranged marital couples especially male’s shows negative relationship between quality of life and marital satisfaction. But females show positive relationship between quality of life and marital satisfaction. Among love matched couples especially females show negative relationship between quality of life and marital satisfaction. But no such significant relationship was present among males who had love marriage.