Abstract:
This study explores the relationship between friendship love and marital adjustment between couples. The goal of this study was to find out the level of marital adjustment in couples having friendship love and to help understand the root cause of adjustment issues in marriages. It was hypothesized that there will be a positive relationship between friendship love and marital adjustment. Also, higher level of friendship love will be seen in love marriages and females will show higher levels of friendship love. The participants in this study were 100 married males and females, 50 each who were married for at least 3 years. The measures of this study included the Love Attitude Scale (LAS) by Hendrick and Hendrick and the Marital Adjustment Test (MAT) by Locke and Wallace. The findings indicated that there is a significant correlation between friendship love and marital adjustment. Additionally, the results suggested that there is no significant association between gender and type of marriage with friendship love
