Post Marital Depression among Women Pedaprolu Vidyadhari1, Priya M.2 1Research Scholar, Department of Human Development, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 2Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Online published on 20 March, 2019. Abstract Marriage, for women in a patriarchal society is an enormous transitional process. Being the centre of attention in her house is not valued much after her marriage and that is what all women can relate to. She juggles with new responsibilities and expectations which is quite overwhelming for her. But with the feelings of worthlessness and feeling trapped and bound in loveless and thankless bond, sets in depression. Depression is a state of mind producing serious, long term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future. Therefore, this study aims to find out the level of depression among women in relation to various factors of life which can examine their experience of well-being in their marriage life so far. A self-prepared questionnaire was developed to assess the level of post marital depression among women, the samples were selected randomly from Coimbatore city and the total number of participants were 66 married women. Self-prepared questionnaire on post marital depression was constructed to asses their level of depression. Results revealed that young aged women experienced higher post marital depression due to new family life, high expectations from in law's and husbands and managing home and work and managing children. But the study did not observe any significant difference among working and non-working women's post marital depression. Top Keywords Married women, Post Marital Depression. Top |