Abstract
Marriage is an important institution in almost all societies in the world. The twenty first century is characterized by the emergence of multiculturalism due to industrialization, urbanization, globalization and disintegration in the family system. In this era of globalization every individual is very much cautious about his or her career development and that too at every distinguishing phase in his life .Around 15-20 years back though individuals were aware of different changes on social and economic fronts, they had accepted different transitions of lives, without much planning and preparation but today’s youngsters or adults who are near about the age of 30s are ready to accept the challenges of life. They have their own set goals in their careers and of course their professional lives. Present study tried to focus on the relationship between marital satisfaction and career success amongst individuals with business (both men and women). Sample consisted of 30 married individuals in the age group of 25 to 50 from Nasik city with a minimum 05 years experience in their business .Tools used were: Martial Satisfaction Scale (standardized) and Career Success Scale (researcher made). Both tools were likert type rating scales having satisfactory reliability and validity values. The results indicate that females show a significantly positive correlation between marital satisfaction and level of career success (r = 0.52, p < 0.01) while the score of males on marital satisfaction and career success were negatively related (r =.-0.14, p < 0.01). As per the comparison between genders there was significant difference (‘t’= 3.23, p < 0.05) between males and females with respect to their level of career success. While the‘t’ value for the variable marital satisfaction for both males and females has not been proved (‘t’ =.950). The role of different factors such as one’s involvement in job, professionalism, subjective aspects related with career success and number of years one completes in his/her profession dominates his/her level of career success and regarding female sample how they cope up with married and professional life may have reflected in their positive correlation with both the variables.
