Volume : VII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

SELF ESTEEM AND MARITAL ADJUSTMENT AMONG MIDDLE AGED COUPLES

Anusree. P, Liji. P. G

Abstract :

The meaning of middle age varies with health, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, cohort, and culture. It is often filled with heavy responsibilities and multiple, demanding roles responsibilities and roles that most adults feel competent to handle. Self–esteem is used to describe a person’s overall sense of self–worth or personal value. Marital adjustment is the integration of the couple in a union in which the two personalities are not merely merged or submerged, but interact to complement each other for mutual satisfaction and the achievement of common objectives. First objective of the study was to find out the relationship between self–esteem and marital adjustment among middle aged couples. Second objective was to find out the self–esteem among middle aged couples. And the third one was to find out the marital adjustment among middle aged couples. The participants for the study consist of 120 middle aged men and women of various housing colonies in Calicut, Kerala. Result shows that there is a significant relationship between self–esteem and marital adjustment.

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ANUSREE.P, LIJI.P.G, SELF ESTEEM AND MARITAL ADJUSTMENT AMONG MIDDLE AGED COUPLES, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-7 | July-2018

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