Dynamics of Marriage and Family

Dynamics of Marriage and Family 3(3+0)

Lesson 22 : Marital Adjustments- Areas and factor

Definitions

• The Dictionary of Modern Sociology (Hoult, 1969) defines marital adjustment as "changes in the marital partners' attitudes and behaviors such that the partners may mutually fulfill their marriage expectations and hopes; sometimes operationally defined as a complex of factors (for example, shared activities, degree of role complementarily, amount of conflict, etc) believed to be associated with the happiness or success of given marriages."


• LeMasters (1957) says that "marital adjustment can be conceptualized as the capacity for adjustment or adaptation, as ability to solve problems rather than absence of problems." Marital adjustment is always a matter of degree, so any marriage at a given time would occupy a point on a scale ranging from poor adjustment to very good adjustment.