MARITAL ADJUSTMENT IN HIV INFECTED WORKING AND NON-WORKING WOMEN

MARITAL ADJUSTMENT IN HIV INFECTED WORKING AND NON-WORKING WOMEN

Dr.Chandrakanth Jamadar

ABSTRACT

In this study ,the researcher examined the marital adjustment in a sample of (320) working and (320) non-working HIV infected women, through the statistical analysis researcher identified the result of working and non-working HIV infected women. whereas very poor marital adjustment have seen in working and non-working women.

Key words: HIV, Infection, affect and marital adjustment

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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Maharani's Arts College, J.L. B. Road, Mysore. KARNATAKA

INTRODUCTION

 Man is just as truly a social as a biological creature and the socialization and development of the personality of an individual is a highly complex process.  But the research undertaken all over the world indicate the fact that, the development of a personality of an individual is entirely influenced by his socio-economic cultural atmosphere to which he is exposed in his primitive years. Because, the social dimensions of the individuals personality are largely determined by his perception of social objects. His interactions and adjustments mainly depend on the interpersonal relations as well as the social, cultural, educational economic and psychological factors.

However, there is a evidence to suggest that environmental factors are of great significance in facilitating or inhibiting given needs, in conceiving the goals as well as in determining the extent to which ones needs are gratified support for this assumption comes from the studies on different aspects of socio-cultural disadvantage/deprivation, carried out in different parts of the world.  When these conditions create force of isolation from society, social problems of personality development arise and a person may lose not only advantageous personality traits but suffer from the risk of stagnating in the development process that would lend to deprivation.

METHODS

Successful marital life gives satisfaction of every person, but interesting point is after the HIV infection its gives the better adjustment and satisfaction of each person? every infected person make his/her marital life successful? In this study is an effort to find out that HIV infected men and women. how they face the depression anxiety and stress, and responsible factors of better marital adjustment.

This study gives us information, causes of marital adjustment and depression anxiety and stress, and this study opens new horizons for new researchers. The finding of the research is helpful for the HIV infected couples, and society.

Research Problem :To study the marital adjustment depression anxiety and stress among HIV infected women in Mysore district.

Hypothesis of the study:H1.Marital adjustment would be a higher than the working women compare to the non-working women.

Participants: The present study was included a sample 640 husbands and wives, single career couples (n-320) double career couple(n-320) from primary health centre and NGOs in Mysore district(KARNATAKA).

Sampling technique : Purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples.

Operational definitions of variables: Marital adjustment :Marriage and family are not optional : they are necessary. They meet man's deepest needs. Marriage provides a person an opportunity for a secure and protected satisfaction of his /her needs for companionship , affection and sexual expression. It involves the most intimate type of emotional relationship between two individuals( Landis,1954 ).

Research Instruments :Following instruments were used to test the hypotheses ;

Marital adjustment Questionnaire (MAQ) by Dr.Pramod kumar and Dr. Kanchana Rohatagi (1999). This questionnaire consists of 25 highly discriminating 'yes-No' type item and three dimensions like, sexual , social and emotional.

Scoring Procedure: A 'yes' response is assigned a score of 1 except for items 4,10 and 19 in which case reverse is applicable. The sum of these values gives the marital adjustment score for the husband or wife, since the responses contributing towards marital adjustment are given a score , the higher the total score, the higher would be the marital adjustment of the husband or wife percentile norms.

Percentile norms: The percentile norms have been separately prepared to help interpret the marital adjustment scores for the husband , for wife , and for the two as a couple (bellow).

 Showing percentile norms

Percentiles	Husband	Wife	categories
80-90	23-24	22-23	Very good
70-75	21-22	20-21	Good
40-60	18-20	18-20	Average
25-30	16-17	16-17	Poor
10-20	13-15	13-15	Very poor

Reliability of the test : The split - half reliability , correlating odd-even items , applying the spearman -Brown formula for doubling the test length , was found to be .49 with an index of reliability of.70 .

Validity of the test : The face ; content validity of the test appeared to be fairly high ( .84 ).

Procedure of the study: In order to accomplish the requirement of the current research, 640 single and double career couple were selected by purposive sampling technique. Then informed the consent was designed according to ethics of the research . The ethical standards of the research and instructions regarding research and questionnaire , marital adjustment questionnaires by Pramod Kumar and Kanchana Rohatgi (1999) and DASS-21 by Fernando Gomez (2001) were used to measure the marital adjustment among HIV infected people.

Statistical techniques used for analysis : The researcher after collecting the data, the data were edited and coded. The data were then analyzed using various statistical tools like mean, standard deviation, t-test.

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Table.No.1.Results of working and non- working women and their level of marital adjustment in sexual , social and emotional expression.( N-320 ).

Variable	Group	Mean	SD	t-value	p-value
Sexual	Non-working women	2.28	0.86	0.06	0.94*
	Working women	2.29	0.77
Social	Non-working women	6.29	0.10	0.34	0.72*
	Working women	6.34	1.28
Emotional	Non-working women	8.35	1.62	0.57	0.56*
	Working women	8.46	1.67
Total	Non-working women	16.93	2.34	0.67	0.50*
	Working women	17.10	2.31

 * Not significant

The above table indicates the results of working and non-working HIV infected women. The score of working and non-working women both have shown very poor in all the dimension of marital adjustment. This results indicates that , there is no significant differences between the working and non- working women in their marital life.

Conclusion

The working and non-working women  result indicates all the three dimension  they shows very poor level of adjustment.

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