Marital Disillusionment, Shyness and Psychological Distress in Young Women

Abstract

The objective of this article is to examine relationship between Marital disillusionment shyness and psychological distress. This was hypothesized that marital disillusionment develops shyness and predicts psychological distress in young women. The sample comprises N=145 young married women with obesity. A cross-sectional survey research design was used to execute study of marital disillusionment shyness and psychological distress in young women. The scales comprise marital disillusionment questionnaire (Niehuis, S., & Bartell, D 2006) Shyness questionnaire (McCroskey, J. C., & Richmond, V.P., 2013) and k10 psychological distress questionnaire (Hiripi E, Epstein JF, Kessler RC, Barker PR, Colpe LJ, Gfroerer 2003). Demographic information sheets were used as well. To demonstrate marital disillusionment and shyness as the predictors of psychological distress in young women a simple linear regression analysis was conducted. The cross-sectional analysis was undertaken to understand the relationship between marital disillusionment shyness and psychological distress. The findings shows that Marital disillusionment is positively correlated with shyness and psychological distress. Shyness is positively correlated with psychological distress. Marital disillusionment predicts shyness and psychological distress in young women. Shyness predicts psychological distress in young women. The result of current study represents an important extension to prior findings and present empirical research provided grounds to more studies in future.

Keywords: Marital Disillusionment, Shyness, Psychological Distress, Scale, Cross-Sectional, Married Women.