Adjustment problems of retired working and non working women on rural and urban background

The present study was undertaken to find and compare the adjustment problems of retired working and non-working women on rural and urban background. 200 retired working and non-working women were selected by using purposive cum stratified sampling technique. Old Age adjustment inventory developed by Shamshad Hussain and Jasbir Kour was uses for data collection. The data was subjected to statistical treatment by using Mean, Standard Deviation, and ‘t’ test. It was found that retired working and non-working women differ significantly on adjustment problems. Retired working women seems to have more adjustment problems as compared to non-working women. Further, it was found that locality has significant impact on adjustment problems of retired working and non working women, rural group was found more adjusted than urban group.