comparative study of marital adjustment and self esteem among husbands of working and non-working wives

ABSTRACT

The present study investigates the difference in the level of Marital Adjustment and Self-esteem between the husbands of working and non-working wives. After detailed literature review following hypotheses have been formulated, [1] husbands of working wives would have lower level of marital adjustment as compared to the husbands of nonworking wives [2] husbands of working wives would have low self esteem as compared to the husbands of nonworking wives. The sample of the present research consisted of 55 married males with an age range of 30-45 years and qualification of at least graduation. Marital Adjustment was measured by the Dyadic Adjustment Scale [DAS] [Spanier, 2001], and Self Esteem was measured using the Rosenberg Self esteem Scale [Rosenberg 1965]. [t test] was used to compute the difference and results showed that there is no significant difference in the level of marital adjustment [t = .944, df = 53, p>.05] and self esteem [t - 1.481, df = 53, p>.05] between the husbands of working and nonworking wives