Impact of Marital Stress on Psychological Resilience and Self-Monitoring Among Married Working and Non-Working Women
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https://doi.org/10.61581/mjsp.v6i04.378Keywords:
Marital stress, psychological resilience, self-monitoring, married women, working statusAbstract
Objective: To examine the effect of marital stress on psychological resilience and self-monitoring of married working and non-working women.
Methodology:A quantitative, cross sectional correlational research was conducted at department of Psychology, Bakhtawar Amin Memorial Trust Hospital, Multan, from February 2025 to August 2025. This purposive sampling method was used to obtain self-reported questionnaires from (N=100) married women of both professions working/non-working in urban and semi-urban areas to assess their marital stress, psychological resilience and self-monitoring. Marital stress was defined as internalizing and feeling of stress in the marital relationship following unresolved marital conflict, emotional distance, communication issues, lack of support and daily marital problems that have a negative impact on the emotional and psychological well-being. Psychological resilience was defined as an individual's capability to bounce back, adjust and remain psychologically healthy in the aftermath of stress, adversity, or difficult life experiences.Data analysis was performed using SPSS version 27.
Results:The mean age of participants was 28.93 ± 4.85 years. The percentage of working women and non-working women was 51 and 49 % respectively. There was a considerable negative linkage between marital stress and psychological resilience (r = -.26, p < .01), which means that the higher marital stress was less psychological resilience among married women. Similarly, marital stress showed a significant negative correlation with self-monitoring (r = -.23, p < .05), which indicated that marital stress was negatively related to self-monitoring skills.
Conclusion:Themarital stress negatively correlates with psychological resilience and self-monitoring, and significantly negatively predicts, both outcomes among married women, while no significant work status differences were found between working and non-working women.
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