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Promotion of Marital Adjustment, Marital Satisfaction and Marital Harmony through Enhancement of Self-Esteem Training among Married Couples

Author : Dahal Singh

Abstract :

The present study examined the relationship between Marital Adjustment, Marital Satisfaction, Marital Harmony, demographic factors and promotion of Marital Adjustment, Marital Satisfaction and Marital Harmony through Enhancement of Self-Esteem Training Among Married couples. Marital Harmony in couples is fundamental since marriage is one of the necessities in human existence. Some factors, both internal and external, can influence Marital Life. Survey research design was used for collecting data for the present study. Data was collected from 51 respondents. Of these 32 were males and 19 were females. The chronological age of female ranged from 30 to 43 years whereas age of male ranged from 32 to 45 years. Length of marriage ranged from 1 year to 13 years. Married couples who living together for more than 5 years were included. Two scales were used ABC Scale of marital relationship developed by N.R. Nappinnai (2005), The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (1962). One-way ANOVA was used to compare demographic variables with psychological factors. Student test (t-test) method was used to understand the effect of self-esteem intervention on psychological factors. Karl Pearson’s correlation method was utilized to identify the relationship between psychological variable and demographic factors. From the findings, it was revealed that demographic factors have significant relationship with psychological components in couples. The results were also discussed in relation to the literature and some implications were suggested.

Keywords :

Marital adjustment, marital satisfaction, marital harmony, self-esteem, marital relationship, psychological components, demographic factors