Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 4

Self-disclosure and Quality of Relationship amongst Spouses of Combatants at a Forward Fighter Airbase

  • Author:
  • MPS Marwaha1, M V Singh2, Rajesh Vaidya3, Bhupinder Kaur Anand4,, Alok Kumar Chowdhury5, Rajat Kumar Garg6
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 99 to 102

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Keywords

Self-disclosure, quality of relationship, wives