Self-Esteem and Marital Adjustment- A Correlational Study

Abstract

Marriage includes the entire donation of self to one another, as well as identifying responsibility that adds to the well-being of both. In today’s dynamic society, marriage can be a challenging endeavor. There are many reasons for people to get married. Marital adjustment is the mental condition in which spouses experience a general sense of contentment and pleasure with their marriage. A marriage with good adjustment outlasts one with poor adjustment. From this point on, research on relationship self-esteem and marital adjustment will help us better comprehend today’s married people. The study is to discover the correlation between self-esteem and marital adjustment. The study’s sample comprises of 130 married people (both men and women). The sample was acquired through easy sampling across using both online and offline means. The sample ranged in age from 20 to 60 years. The instruments utilized in the study were Stanley Coppersmith’s Self-Esteem Inventories and Dr Har Mohan Singh’s Marital Adjustment Inventory (MAI-s). Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to analyze the data. According to the findings, the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient between marital adjustment and self-esteem is 0.291, significant at the 0.01 level, indicating a significant relationship between self-esteem and marital adjustment. It is also made clear that a spouse’s self-esteem is connected to how well they adjust to marriage. This pattern would suggest that married people gain from their sense of self-worth. To be able to adapt and adjust properly in their married lives, people need to be taught how to develop self-esteem. A sense of identity and self-esteem are two of the many emotional advantages that a well-adjusted marriage offers its participants.