Marital Adjustment among Women: A Comparative Study of Nuclear and Joint Families

Marital adjustment denotes emotional stability, intellectual efficiency and social effectiveness people. He present study is an attempt to ascertain the level of marital adjustment among women with reference to their type of family belonging to Madhya Pradesh. For the conduction of study a sample of 120 women (nuclear family=60 & joint family=60) was purposively selected. The measure used for data collection was Pramod, K.; Kanchana, R. Marital Adjustment Scale. The data was analyzed by computing Means, SD, & t-test. The results revealed that there was a significant difference in marital adjustment among women of nuclear and joint families. The women belonging to nuclear showed higher levels of marital adjustment as compared to women of joint families.