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EFFECTS OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON THE MARITAL ADJUSTMENT OF WORKING WOMEN IN BANGLADESH
By: Md. Nurul Islam, Mohd. Ashik Shahrier, Nasrin Sultana Shimu
Key Words: Demographic factors, marital adjustment, working women
JLES-Vol-10-No-P-31-38, December 2015
AbstractThe study was designed to investigate the effects of socio-demographic factors on marital adjustment of women working outside the home in Bangladesh. The study was conducted on 220 working women selected purposively from Chittgong city, Bangladesh. Bengali version of Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Ilyas, 2001), originally developed by Spanier (1976) was used for data collection. Data analyzed through t-test and F- test indicated that working women having 2 or less than 2 children showed better marital adjustment compared to women having more than 2 children. While considering the family types of working women, it was found that working women from joint families showed better marital adjustment as compared to women of single-families. Women having lower length of marriage showed better marital adjustment compared to women having higher length of marriage and working women having higher educational qualifications showed better marital adjustment compared to women having lower educational qualifications. It was also found from the findings of the study that women of higher household monthly income showed better marital adjustment compared to women of lower household monthly income.
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Md. Nurul Islam, Mohd. Ashik Shahrier, Nasrin Sultana Shimu
EFFECTS OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON THE MARITAL ADJUSTMENT OF WORKING WOMEN IN BANGLADESH
JLES-Vol-10-No-P-31-38, December 2015
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