Psycho-Social Problems and Coping of Women with Alcoholic Spouses in Rural Malwa Area, Dist. Ludhiana, Punjab - A Pilot Study

The present study was conducted to assess the psychosocial problems and coping of women with alcoholic spouse, in village Gahour, 56 km from Raikot city in distt. Ludhiana. The objectives of this study were : 1. To assess the psychosocial problem of women with alcoholic spouse 2. To assess the coping of women with alcoholic spouse 3.To find the relationship between the psychosocial problem and coping of women with alcoholic spouse 4.To find the relationship of psychosocial problems with the selected variables. i.e. age, education, family income per month, occupation, type of family, duration of addiction of spouse, religion, duration of marriage, number of children 5. To find the relationship of coping with selected variables. i.e. age, education, family income per month, occupation, type of family, duration of addiction of spouse, religion, duration of marriage, number of children. The conceptual framework is based on Roy's adaptation model. An exploratory approach and non experimental research design was used for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used and 60 women with alcoholic husbands were interviewed. The independent variables were age, education, family income per month, occupation, type of family, duration of addiction of spouse, religion, duration of marriage and number of children. The dependent variables were psychosocial problem and coping of women with alcoholic spouse. The study found that majority of women had physiological problems [13.13%] followed by psychological problems [12.79%] and psycho-social problems [7.40%]. While 6.6% women had financial problems, only 3.92% stated to have sexual problems. 71.1% women had adoptive and 28.3% showed mal-adoptive coping. Age, Education, Vocation, Economic status, Family type, religion, Duration of Marriage, Duration of Addiction and number of Children had No Impact on Psycho-Social problems. Among these variables, only age and duration of addiction had impacted coping strategy of women.