A Comparative Study to Assess the Level of Marital Adjustment among Working Men and Working Women in Selected Urban Area of Delhi, NCR

Swati Tripathy, Lavanya Nandan

Abstract: Marital adjustment among working population is a dangerous problem of present-day society. The study aimed to compare the level of marital adjustment among working men and working women. A comparative study design was adopted. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used for selecting 100 samples i. e.50 married working men and 50 married working women. Marital adjustment rating scale was used to collect data. Result shows that in the working men group, majority of the samples had very-good adjustment and in working women group majority of the samples had moderate adjustment with the percentage score of 46 % and 48 % respectively. There was a significant difference between the mean marital adjustment scores of working men (64.12) and working women (58.04) at 0.05 level of significance. There was a significant association between marital adjustment score of working men and working women with some selected demographic variables.

Keywords: marital adjustment, working men, working women, information booklet, marital relationship enrichment