Marital Adjustment and Life Satisfaction Among Teachers from Arunachal Pradesh

Background: Marriage is known as union of two people as partners in a personal relationship.  Marital adjustment and life satisfaction are the two keys which plays a significant role in marriage. When couples find difficulty in adjustment, lack of emotional support and failure of any aspects of life can bring unpredictable reasons for fight and this can a reason of divorce. In Arunachal Pradesh not many studies have been found and this was one of the main reason this study has been put forward. Aim: The research aims at exploring and correlational of the marital adjustment and life satisfaction among teachers from Arunachal Pradesh Method: An exploratory design had been chosen and a correlational method has done for the study. Total 100 teachers participated in the study. Tools used for the study was Marriage Adjustment Inventory (MAI) developed By C.G. Deshpande (1997) and Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale by Diener et al., (1985). Results: The result shows teachers found to be moderate on marital adjustment and in life satisfaction they found to be at higher side. Sample was not normally distributed that is why researcher used non-parametric statistics. There was positive correlation found between marital adjustment and life satisfaction among teachers. Only two dimensions of marital adjustment namely confrontations & quarrels and social participation were positively correlated with life satisfaction, significant at 0.01 level. Conclusion: The present study shows significant correlation between marital adjustment and life satisfaction. In future through this study population will understand the importance of different life factors and will focus in the management plan of counselling for teachers in every school for better mental health, which will bring synchronization in schools.