CORRELATION OF THE PERSONALITY TRAITS WITH THE REASONS FOR DIVORCE IN I.T. PROFESSIONALS

Abstract

The present study aimed to examine the relationship between the personality traits and certain domains of reasons for divorce. A total of 412 litigants (those who have applied for divorce) in family courts of Chennai have been interviewed personally by the investigator. Among them all 412 had revealed the reasons for divorce and only 399 had consented for personality traits assessment. A non probability convenient sampling technique was adopted to select the samples. Spearman rank order correlation was used to analyze the data. Results revealed that there is positive correlation between illness reason with conscientiousness traits at p= 0.0195 and r= 0.118.Findings showed that there is relationship between the personality traits and certain domains of reasons for divorce.