IMPACT OF MARITAL QUALITY ON JOB PERFORMANCE: A GENDERED ANALYSIS OF CHAKWAL, PAKISTAN

Abstract

In marriage, marital quality is a key element that has become the aspiration of every couple. But nowadays because the modern job market puts too much pressure on family life, Marital quality remains challenging for many people. This study sought to evaluate the level of marital quality and to determine its impact on job performance by measuring (communication, emotional support, intimacy and affection, trust and respect, and overall satisfaction) in the marital relationship between married employees of Chakwal district Punjab, Pakistan. The sample for this study includes 221 respondents (147 males and 76 females) selected through the random sampling technique. A self-administered questionnaire was designed for data collection which is divided into different parts. The data is analyzed through the SPSS and STATA. In this study estimation techniques like descriptive statistics, and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to analyse the data. These results show that there is a significant impact of marital quality on job performance. The overall findings indicate that female respondents have higher marital quality due to which their job performance increases as compared to males but there is a slight difference between both gender’s marital quality and job performance while the sample ratio of females is less than the ratio of males. The study recommends that organizations should implement policies that will help to promote the work- life balance such as flexible hours of work and also the facility to remote work which will enhance the work-life balance and help to enhance marital quality which positively impacts the job performance.