COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MARITAL SATISFACTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING AND QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG PERMANENT AND CONTRACTUAL INDUSTRIAL PERSONNEL.
Keywords:
marital satisfaction, psychological well-being, quality of life, industrial employees, employment type.,,Abstract
The present study access marital satisfaction, psychological wellbeing and quality of life among
industrial employees using qualitative and quantitative analysis method. Total 128 participants
(N=128) were accessed by using standardized psychological test, those tests are Marital
Satisfaction Scale (MSS) by Shrivastava, have 30 items on 5- point Likert scale, Spearman Brown
reliability =0.89, Psychological Well-being Scale (PWB) by Sisodia and Chaudhary, consisting of
50 items on a 5 point Likert scale and test retest reliability=0.87, internal consistency = 0.90 and
Quality of life scale (QOL) by Sharma and Nasreen have 42 item rated on a 3 point scale, test have
Cronbach’s α reliability = .81. Quantitative finding showing moderate to high levels of all three
variables: Marital Satisfaction (M=121.82, SD=10.71), Psychological Well-being (M=190.26,
SD=21.68) and Quality of Life (M= 105.03, SD= 7.07). Independent t-test indicated there is no
significance difference between 2 groups for marital satisfaction (t(114.36)=0.64, p=0.521),
psychological well-being(t(126)= 0.06,p=0.954) and Quality of life (t(126)= 0.07, p=0.942).
Pearson correlations demonstrated significance positive correlation between three variables, with
marital satisfaction positively correlated with psychological well-being (r=0.33, p< 0.01) and
marital satisfaction with quality of life (r=0.32, p< 0.01), while Psychological well-being and
quality of life have strong correlation. (r=0.59, p< 0.01).
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