A Comparative Study of Presumptive Stressful Life Events on Marital Status and Gender

Abstract

The institution of marriage is considered as the sacred collaboration not only between two people but two different families. In a hindu majority population marriage is a binding for whole life and separation by any religious rule or custom is not mentioned anywhere, so society is also not accepting the failure of marriage easily. Unfortunately, if a person is facing divorce, this is affecting him/her in many ways. To assess the impact of marital status on the level of stress among men and women a total of 100 participants was chosen for the study. In the 2x2 factorial research design stratification was based on two strata, marital status (married and divorced) and gender (male and female). In every cell of the sample there were 25 participants selected by purposive sampling technique. The Presumptive stressful life Event Scale[1] was used to determine the level of stress among the participants. The data analysis shows that the stress among the married women is higher than married men but divorced men are shown more presumptive stress than divorced women. The two-way ANOVA has been revealed that the impact of gender and marital status together plays a significant role in producing such stress.