Abstract
The purpose of the present research was to understand whether
child marriage is a determinant of depression in women. In order
to measure the level of depression the Siddiqui-Shah Depression
Scale (1992) was administered on a sample of 60 married women
out of which 30 were married before the age of 18, and the
remaining 30 were married after 18 years of age. All these
women belonged to the middle socio-economic class of Karachi.
The age range of the participants was between 18 to 40 years
with a minimum of one year of marriage to a maximum of 20
years. The average age of the participants at the time of marriage
was calculated to be 18.8 years and each participant had an
average of 2 kids. For statistical analysis of the data the t-test was
calculated and the results obtained were found to be nonsignificant which explained that child marriage is not a
determinant of depression in women.
Zainab Hussain Bhutto, Naima Fatima Shariff, Asma Zakaria. (2013) Child Marriage as a Determinant of Depression in Women, Journal of Behavioural Sciences, Volume 23, Issue 1.
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