Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Sharbani Mullick ¹, Nabamita Chakraborty ¹, Sanjukta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, IN

Abstract

The current research explored the relationship between the daily hassles encountered by 30 to 40-year-old working women and the consequent changes in the reported levels of marital satisfaction. The sample size was 80. Self-report instruments, namely, Marital Satisfaction Scale (Amnthraj&Jai Prakash ), the Daily Hassles Scale (Basu, 2005), the Presumptive Stressful Life Event Scale (Singh et al., 1984) and the General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg&Hill, 1990) were filled out by the participants to assess the respective domains concerned with the investigation. For methodological and interpretive convenience, the participants were divided into two broad groups by the median-split technique one having high and the other low marital satisfaction. Statistical treatment and analyses of the obtained data reveal lesser daily hassles reported by the high marital satisfaction group in contrast to the low marital satisfaction group. Implications and conclusions of the findings are mentioned.

Keywords

Marital Happiness, Working Women.

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Nabamita Chakraborty ¹, Sanjukta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, IN

Abstract

Middle adulthood entails the height of social power and having access to a rich supply of social support (Dorner et al., 2005).Although the social networks are shrinking throughout adulthood, social satisfaction is steadily on the rise (e.g., Lansford, Sherman & Antonucci,1998). Naturally, self-esteem is quite at its peak around the age of 60 years (Robins, Trzesniewski, Tracy, Gosling, & Potter, 2002), the source of personal control and power is at its peak (Clarke-Plaskie & Lachman, 1999), and subjective well-being tends to be at least higher than in young adulthood (e.g., Cross & Markus, 1991;Heckhausen, 1999) without feeling overly grandiose or afraid (Dorner et al., 2005). Unlike many younger adults, most of them have made their peace with societal expectations and have found decent arrangements to meet both personal goals and environmental demands. Yet, in comparison to older adults, middle adults tend to be more egocentric and also more vital and vigorous in pursuing their concerns (Mc Adams, 2001; Stewart & Vandewater, 1998).

Keywords

Psychiatric Morbidity, Self-Efficacy, Midlife Generativity.

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