The changing conception of meaning of life among Indian working class: An examination of effect of marital status on meaning of life

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Hansika Singhal and Renu Rastogi (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand)

The present study was an attempt to examine the construct of Meaning of life among married and unmarried corporate working employees. The sample consisted of 100 subjects, subdivided equally into two groups G1 (married employees) and G2 (unmarried employees) all working in the corporate sector. Content analysis has been done to understand the concept of meaning of life of the participants. Content analysis revealed that there were five broad categories of the sources of meaning of life for the participants namely family, recreational, social, sexual and spiritual. Further, frequency analysis revealed that 96% of the married and 42% of the unmarried employees derived their meaning of life from their Family domain and 48% of the married and 70% of the unmarried employees derived their meaning of life from the Recreational domain.