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Marital Adjustment Analysis

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The study of marital adjustment has a long history in psychology and also in sociology. Yet the study of marital adjustment still has much to contribute to psychology and other disciplines. The present study aims to find the best way to maximize new contributions at this time and to adopt a more comprehensive perspective of marital adjustment, communication and attachment in relevance to working and non working women. In Pakistan, marriage is a very common practice. Those women who go for different kinds of jobs may sometimes have to face problems in their married life. It has been observed nowadays that women have to face a lot of marital issues due to different environmental factors. One of such factors is job of married women. Definitely …show more content…

But the present study is aimed to study three attachment styles given by Hazen and Shaver (1987), furthermore along with attachment, communication is also an important variable of this study and lastly population include only women from two categories i.e working and non working. Here relationship between adult attachment styles (secure, anxious and avoidant), communication and marital adjustment of the two categories of women i.e working and non working will be studied. In addition to this, specifically secure attachment style will be one of the main focuses of this study. Impact of the dimensions of attachment on marital adjustment of working and non working women is another focus of this study. In the light of prevalent literature (Dilillo, 2001; Bradbury, 1999) it will be predicted that those couples who exhibit negative communications are more at risk of stressed relationship. So the importance of positive and negative communication in marital adjustment will also be …show more content…

The next important factor that contributes to marital adjustment is the duration of marriage i.e the time that the couple has spent together so far. Effect of duration of marriage will be explored in the light of prevalent literature ( Awe,1996) that here is a significant difference in marital adjustment of long married and recently married spouses. In our society it has been commonly observed that after marriage, the most vital factor to marital adjustment is having children. Child birth is observed to be a very important feature which ties up the bond between a husband and wife. Childless couples face more stress in society as compared to the one who have children in early years of their marriage so effect of having children or not will also be explored in both working and non working women in the present

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