FLOURISHING OF MARITAL RELATIONSHIP: ANALYZING EDUCATION AS DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLE OF PAKISTANI HUSBANDS AND WIVES

Flourishing within marital relationship is a notion used to describe optimum quality of relationship between husband and wife. Despite profusion of research to recognize the factors underlying a happy and satisfying marital relationship, the determinant of a flourishing marital connection remains limited. Moreover, in the effort to understand flourishing of marital relationship, role of demographic variables has always been understudied. Hence, aim of the current investigation was to investigate the effects of level of education upon flourishing of Pakistani married sample. 1002 married individuals participated in this cross sectional study. Data was gathered through self-report indigenous measure of Psychological Flourishing Scale (PFS; Fahd & Hanif, 2007). The data was analyzed by inferential statistics using One-way Analysis of Variance. Findings exhibited significant variances in marital flourishing on the basis of level of education. It was depicted that level of marital flourishing was highest among individuals with low level of education i.e. matric as compared to high levels of education i.e. Masters and M.Phil./PhD. The article is concluded by briefly foregrounding some of the study’s limitations as well as implications for the practice, and some of the directions for future research.