Marital Adjustment among Urban and Rural Women

Abstract

In today’s life, adjustment is necessary aspect when we talk about a relationship. This study was conducted to assess and compare the marital adjustment of women in urban and rural areas of Lucknow. It’s a comparative study, conducted in urban and rural areas of Lucknow district over a period of 3 months. Thirty women were interviewed by purposive sampling, 15 each were taken from urban and rural areas of Lucknow. Out of each 15 women, five women had married life between 5 to 10 years, five had 10-15 years and remaining five had married life of above 15 years. The tool used for the data collection was a questionnaire constructed and standardized by PRAMOD KUMAR & Km. KANCHANA ROHATGI. Data was analyzed by using the software SPSS, version 17.0. and Students’t Test. The result indicates that urban women have good marital adjustment and rural women have poor marital adjustment and this finding is statistically significant as well as meaningful. It is also found that marital adjustment was better in women having short married life of 5-10 years and those belonging to higher socio-economic status.

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Huma Fatima

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Huma Fatima (2014). Marital Adjustment among Urban and Rural Women. International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS), 1(8), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-30724