The document summarizes a thesis presentation on the effect of birth order on marital adjustment. It describes a study that administered the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale to 64 married couples, divided into two groups based on having the same or opposite birth orders. The results indicated that couples with opposite birth orders reported greater marital adjustment than those with the same birth order. The discussion proposes that opposite birth orders help avoid rank conflicts and allow partners to share strengths and weaknesses. The conclusion is that birth order significantly impacts marital adjustability, with opposite birth order couples adjusting better.

1. THESIS PRESENTATION BY: SYEDA KHADIJA FATIMA

2. EFFECT OF BIRTH ORDER ON MARITAL ADJUSTMENT

4. Introduction

5. Method

6. Results

7. Discussion

8. Conclusion

9. Recommendations

10. ReferencesAGENDA

11. The effect of marital adjustment `on birth order was studied. Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale was administered to a sample of 64 married couples. Participants were divided into two groups, 32 with same birth order and 32 for opposite birth order. T-test was used for the statistical analysis of data. Significant result indicates that couples with opposite birth order have greater marital adjustability as compare to same birth order. ABSTRACT

12. Marital Adjustment Defined as: A dynamic process, and marital satisfaction is listed as one of the outcomes of the adjustment process. Marital adjustment can also be defined as a dynamic process and yet be measured as a state at a given point in time, dynamic change involves, such as negotiation between the spouses. By Spanier

13. Birth Order Birth order is the chronological order of sibling births in a family By Adler

14. Literature Review EFFECT OF BIRTH ORDER AT MARITAL ADJUSTMENT:

21. METHOD AND PROCEDURE

22. PARTICIPANTS:

23. MEASURE:

24. DEMOGRAPHIC SHEET Number of siblings Birth order Number of children Years of marriage Occupation Income Education Family system (i.e. nuclear or combine) Arranged marriage OR Love-come arranged marriage OR Love marriage.

25. Spanier Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale: It is a 14 item questionnaire. Self inventory test used widely across world. It has three subscales that are as follows: Consensus Satisfaction Cohesion

28. GRAPH

29. DISCUSSION This hypothesis was formulated keeping the birth order theory along with the theory of Toman, (1976) and Leman, (1998) both the theorists believe that the opposite birth order of husband and wife leads to more healthy relationship in order to avoid rank conflict and to embrace the earned birth order in the family of in-laws.

30. The opposite earned birth order is the one for which an individual strives throughout the sib ship. This means that by observing the overly achieved first-born, last-born would more likely to be associated with his/her older sibling in order to encash the deprived trait of him/her.

31. Therefore in couples of opposite birth order, both partners will be able to associate and share their weak and strong traits with each other that would result in solution of rank conflict.

32. CONCLUSION It is concluded that there is an effect of birth order onmarital adjustability. It is noted that hypothesis was statistically significant and it can be safely concluded that couples of opposite birth order have high marital adjustability as compared to couples of same birth order.

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