IRJMSH Vol 10 Issue 3 [Year 2019] ISSN 2277 – 9809 (0nline) 2348–9359 (Print) International Research Journal of Management Sociology & Humanities ( IRJMSH ) Page 354 www.irjmsh.com Family Types among Marital Adjustment of Dual Career Couples Shaista Ansari * Anshu Shrivastava ** Chitra Pandey*** * Department, of Psychology ** MATS School of Arts and Humanities, MATS University, Raipur, C.G. Abstract: The present research focused on family types among marital adjustment of dual career couples. The study sample was working married female teachers from Chhattisgarh. The sample 320 was stratified randomly selected from Chhattisgarh district. The total teachers were married. The family type is a demographic variable of the subject, the stratification on this variable will be done through the personal interview and the researcher asks orally whether subject belong to nuclear or joint family and the samples completed self-report measures of the Marital Adjustment through Marital Adjustment (Kumar and Rohatgi, 1985). One Way ANOVA was used for data analysis. Finding of the study indicates that the family types are able to generate significant variance upon the marital adjustment of female teachers of dual career couples. Keywords: Family Types (FT) Marital Adjustment (MA) INTRODUCTION In any marriage, the individuals coming from different background, when start living together; start adjusting just after ceremony of marriage is performed. This reveals that reality must be faced and fantasies must be erased. There is no longer any space left in life of fantasy or of make-believe; one must come out of the clouds of fantasy and puts one’s feet firmly on the earth to have a sun shower to live life beautifully with spouse. Responsibility must be assumed and new duties must be accepted with all expected and unexpected conditions between the partners in any marital process. Some personal freedom must be relinquished, and many adjustments, unselfish adjustment, must be made. It can be believed that one’s happy married life can be determined by, firstly, ignoring faults in a limited way, because no one is perfect and secondly, by adjusting with the partner with the help of compromising tools. Marital adjustment as a function is dependent on various factors like an ideal mate, fulfillment of needs, similarity of backgrounds, common interest value, role concepts and change in life partners. Marital adjustment, satisfaction with different facets in marital field, relationship, happiness a number of variable attest to the quality of a marriage. Such dimensions are frequently studied in the marriage and family field. The concepts of marital adjustment, success, satisfaction, stability, happiness, consensus, cohesion, adoption, integration and role strain are used in a psychological sense referring to the state of one of the marital partners, sometime they are used in social, psychological sense referring of the state of the group or system. All these concepts emphasize a dimension that contrasts with male adjustment dissatisfaction, instability and unhappiness. The