Interpersonal Tolerance, Gender Role Attitudes, and Marital Adjustment among Married Couples

Abstract

The present study investigated interpersonal tolerance, gender role attitudes, and marital adjustment in married couples. A sample (N = 100) of married couples through purposive convenient sampling technique was selected. The study was conducted in three phases i.e. phase I, phase II, and phase III. Phase I of the study was planned to indigenously translate and adapt the Interpersonal Tolerance Scale from English language to Urdu. Phase II comprised of the construct validation of the translated interpersonal tolerance scale and its results showed fit indices for the model fit that was employed through confirmatory factor analysis using Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS). Phase III of the study investigated the correlational analysis using Pearson product moment correlation through Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results shown that there is significant positive correlation between the interpersonal tolerance of male spouses and female spouses. The marital adjustment and gender role attitudes of male spouses and female spouses were also found to be significant. Moreover, Interpersonal tolerance was not significantly correlated with marital adjustment. Dyadic analysis using Actor-Partner Interdependence Model was also studied using SmartPLS v. 4 (Smart Partial Least Square). The results revealed that both the actor and partner effects of the interpersonal tolerance on marital adjustment and traditional gender role attitudes of male and female spouses was significant. Actor-partner interdependence mediation model (APIMeM) showed that only traditional gender role attitudes mediated the effect of interpersonal tolerance of male spouses and female spouses on their own marital adjustment (actor effects) and on the marital adjustment of their respective spouses (partner effect).