Relationship of Religious and Role Variables with Marital Adjustment Among Muslim Couples in Bangladesh

The purpose of the present study was to identify a subset of religious and role variables that are the best predictors of marital adjustment of husbands and wives. data were collected from 300 Muslim couples of Dhaka. The instruments included: a demographic and work characteristic questionnaire; a measure of religious practice; measures of role enactment and disagreement on role enactment; measures of role expectation and disagreement on role expectation; female role perception scale; perceived role conflict scale for wife; and the marital adjustment scale. Standardized Betas from multiple regression analysis confirmed thirteen out of seventy hypothesized relations between predictor variables and husband's marital adjustment. Similar analysis identified twelve out of seventy relations between predictor. variables and wife's marital adjustment.