Assessment Of Socioeconomic Conditions And Marital Adjustment Among The Working Women In Trichy

Abstract

Women are the backbone of every family.  They show keen interest in the household activities and also in their profession. They have to balance their work life with family life.  In this regard, they face with many adjustment problems such as relationship adjustment with couple, problem of understanding the mother-in-law and sister-in-law in the family, problem in understanding their own children, economic problem, emotional problem and social problem.  Hence the researcher aims to study the marital adjustment of married women and described the characteristics of married working women by using Descriptive research design and their adjustment problems by using non-probability sampling in the form of purposive sampling and collected data from 100 married working women in Trichy. A self-prepared questionnaire is used to collect data regarding Socio demographic information of the respondents and applied the Marital Adjustment Scale developed by Vaishnavi and Shalini (2020) and analyzed the data by the use of SPSS.  Chi-square test between age and marital adjustment, ANOVA between respondents education, occupation with regard to marital adjustment has been carried out.  The findings and suggestions are discussed in the article.