Mental Health Adjustment and Life Satisfaction Analytical Study of Married Couples

1.1 Introduction 1.2 Marriage in India 1.3 Single Employee and Dual Employee Married Couples 1.4 Mental Health 1.5 Marital Adjustment 1.6 Life Satisfaction 1.7 Statement of the Problem 1.8 Purpose of the Study 1.9 Significance of the Study

Introduction Marriage is the most important event in the life of every person. It is a commitment to love, happiness, and development of a very strong as well as the healthy family relationship. A family is the most important group in society. In Indian married couples, mostly, husbands are employed and the purpose of their job is their main source of income. Today women‟s roles are changed. Women are most important part of the human resources of the nation. Many of them contribute very substantially to build a powerful, strong and affluent nation as well as family. They are working in every field and started taking up white collar jobs and even take up challenging careers like politics in great numbers, including married women with small children. When married women work outside the home, they encounter problems of harmonizing their two roles. In this situation, many problems are created in the family as well as at working place. The situation of women alternating between home and work leads to a role conflict. Some of them develop a feeling of guilt that they are unable to look after the home and children properly. Besides the strains of shouldering the burden of dual roles and facing a role conflict, there is often another kind of strain arising from a lack of adjustment between a woman‟s position at home and at the place of work. In the 21st century, Technology and Globalization have changed our life very fast. People living in this century, are also very advanced and fast thinkers. Day by day, their life change very drastically. Because of the changing era, women are aware of their own rights, we find more couples getting divorced from each other because of the more aware women about their self-esteem, rights, expectation, emotions and their own wish. Most of the women are giving more importance to their career, rather than their family. Most of the women of this era are very well aware of their prestige and dignity. Because of the changing mindset of the society, she is not going to bear any injustice. Men and women both prefer to get the divorce instead of creating dispute every day with each other. They separate from each other happily and live their own life happily. In 18th and 19th centuries, traditional people thought that divorce is a very bad thing and event of life. According