Psychological Wellbeing of Married and Cohabited Young Women

Abstract

Psychological wellbeing is the mental state of satisfaction. Being happy psychologically. Able to perceive happiness is called the psychological wellbeing. Psychological wellbeing differs from person to person. The experience of positive emotion or subjective wellbeing. Marriage is also a positive component but how individual perceive differ. Some prefer trail marriage to experience their happiness subjectively. Marriage and cohabitation both have its merits and demerits. Keeping above points in view the present study was undertaken to find out the psychological wellbeing of married and cohabited young adults were taken for the study. A Total of (N=60) married and (N=60) cohabited young adults (only men) were included in the study. A Psychological wellbeing questionnaire developed by (Sisoda and Choudhary, 2012) was administered. The obtained result shows that there is a significant difference between Marriage and cohabitation young adults in their psychological wellbeing scale score, the probable reasons were discussed in this study.