Abstract

This paper is aimed at comparing marital adjustment and domestic harmony between inter-religious/ inter caste couples and same religion couples. Marriage play a important role in every individuals life and if we talk about inter religious marriage then pehaps it becomes more challenging. This research has been conducted on 60 couples (30 Inter Religious and 30 Same Religion Couples). Further Domestic Harmony questionnaire and Marital adjustment questionnaire had been administered on them. Significant difference has been found on Marital Adjustment between male and female participants of inter religious couples. No significant gender difference had been found on rest of the variables among same and inter religious couples. Further inter religious couples scored significantly higher than the same religion couples on Domestic Harmony.Though no significant difference is evident on Marital adjustment among same and inter religious couples. Findings of this paper reveal, usually there are not much difference on most of the variables, in fact inter religious couple have scored higher on domestic harmony than same religion couples.

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