INDIAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH STUDIES - Volume 6 Issue 2, July 24

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Adult Attachment Functioning and Marital Quality: A Psychosocial Study on Early & Middle Adults

Author: Nabamita Chakraborty

Category: Health Studies

Abstract:

Marital quality, adjustment and post-marital family harmony have been considered to be significant precursors to adult well-being. The research aimed to find out gender differences, if any, among early and middle-adult participants. It also sought interactions/ interconnections between adult attachment style, stressful life events and marital quality of male and female early and middle adults aged between 25 and 45 years. Each participant individually filled out self-report measures such as the Relationship Structure Scale and the Marital Quality Scale. Snowball sampling was used to collect data from a sample of 45 couple participants aged 25 to 45 years. Statistical analyses were done. Statistical analyses revealed no significant gender difference in the marital quality of the participants. Global Avoidance, Global Anxiety and Anxious Attachment Styles are the predictors of high scores on the Marital Quality Scale (higher score indicates poorer marital quality). Discussion and implications throw light on policy-making in the area of family and marital therapy and the rights and well-being of children.

Keywords: Marital Quality, marital satisfaction, attachment functioning, adulthood.

DOI: 10.56490/IJHS.2024.6204

DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.56490/IJHS.2024.6204