Self-disclosure and Quality of Relationship amongst Spouses of Combatants at a Forward Fighter Airbase Marwaha MPS1, Singh M V2, Vaidya Rajesh3, Anand Bhupinder Kaur4,*, Chowdhury Alok Kumar5, Garg Rajat Kumar6 1Classified Specialist Aviation Medicine, Air Force Centre Medical Establishment, New Delhi 2Commandant AMC Centre and College, Lucknow, 3HOD & Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Army Medical College, Delhi 4Professor, Department of Community Medicine, SGT Medical College, Gurugram 5Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, ADAMAS University, Kolkata 6Graded Specialist Psychiatry, Air Force Centre Medical Establishment, New Delhi *Corresponding author: Dr. Bhupinder Kaur Anand Designation: -Professor, Department of Community Medicine, SGT Medical College, Gurugram, Email ID: -siffatmarwaha@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 6 April, 2019. Abstract Objective The aim of the study was to gain knowledge of the quality of relationship and self-disclosure amongst spouses of combatants at a forward airbase. Method 30 wives of Serving personnel of a forward base were voluntarily administered quality of relationship scale along with self-disclosure scales. It was done during health camp and meetings organized by the Station Health Authorities. Data were tabulated and analyzed through SPSS-ver.11 for descriptive and correlations purposes. Results The mean age of marriage was 22.4 years and 25.9 years for wives and (husbands) respectively. The study sample has 10.4 years of marital life experiences. Wives reported their quality of relationship with their husbands in terms of depth, affection, support and physical intimacy, while they mostly do self and family related disclosures with their husbands. Conclusion Conflict coping strategies are tri-pronged namely active, emotional & avoidance. Emotional coping is a major cause of stress overloading in a relationship. In the present study, Conflict avoidance in quality of relationship is positively correlated with Self (p<.01) and Family (p<.05) related disclosures in all issues amongst the couples residing at the fighter base. Conflict avoidance is helpful in alleviating stress overloading, among couples. These results can be useful in dealing in other relationships also. Top Keywords Self-disclosure, quality of relationship, wives. Top |