Relationship of Financial Instability and Personality Mismatch of the couples with Divorce

Abstract

The study was an attempt to discover increasing rate of divorce in our society and the causes behind this phenomenon. The main considerations of the study were financial problems and personality differences of the couples that can ruin the marriages. It was assumed that poor financial position and personality clashes among couples will be the factors that shatter the marriages. The total sample 200 divorced people (100 divorced females) and (100 divorced males) were selected from different regions of Hazara division and purposive sampling technique was used. The revised version of Marital Adjustment Scale (2011) was used to obtain the data from the participants. After collecting data which was the toughest and time consuming phase of the study, the results were analysed on SPSS version 20 using chi square statistics. The results confirmed that both financial instability and personality mismatch are the leading contributors of divorce among couples in Hazara, KPK. The study was an effort to explore the factors of marriage breakdown but there is more research work needed in this social area to better understand this trauma.