A Study to Assess the Impact of COVID-19 on Marital Relationships Among Married Couples in Srinagar, Jammu ; Kashmir

Abstract

COVID-19 has affected each and every part of our lives and is continuously poking it’s nose till now in the form of one or the other strain. People have suffered it in terms of their health, wealth and relationships. The physical, mental, social, spiritual, vocational, biological, psychological aspects of health had been left in glitches and malfunctioning. COVID 19 induced separations in some places however at some other areas it acted as a cohesive force to tackle with it in unison. The main aim of this study was to assess the couple conflict levels among married couples induced by COVID-19 or post COVID- 19 situations. The study was conducted by means of online google forms via online mode in which the investigators prepared and forwarded questionnaire links to a few known married couples with their request to forward the same to other known married couples living within Srinagar city only. Thus, sampling was done by non-probability snowball technique. The study was conducted on the couples residing in the jurisdiction of Srinagar city of Jammu and Kashmir only. The links of questionnaires to collect responses were kept open from first January to 10th January 2023. The result is of the study depicted that majority 54 (90%) of study subjects belonged to the religion of Islam, majority 24 (40%)  of the study subjects were in the age group of 31-40 years of age, almost equal number 32 (53.33%) were males and 28( 46.66%) were females, majority 42 (70%) were government employees, maximum 52 (86.70%) of the study subjects were having education level of graduation and above and half of the study subjects 30 (50%) of the study subjects while living in joint families. The study also revealed that there is significant association between couple conflict levels and selected demographic variables [religion (p=0.001), gender (p=0.041), occupation (p=0.000) and education (p=0.02)] except for age (p=0.127) and family type (p=0.07).