Happiness Is the Production of Self Love and Its Reflection to Marital Status of Aged Women

A sample of 100 aged women (50 married and 50 unmarried) was selected to determine theirpsychosocial profiles. The variables selected for this study were narcissism and happiness. Dataanalysis revealed interesting findings that married women were found to be more sociable andhappy in adjustment context. Less hassles and less anxiety illuminated their lives with moreenjoyment and more harmonious relations and less narcissistic manifestation in behavior pattern.On the other hand, less orientation towards social acceptance make never-married women easyvictims of impaired quality of life, higher authoritative attitude, exhibitionism, exploitativeness,vanity and narcissism that leads to less commitment to relationships. Also, they have a tendency toexhibit lack of empathy, marked levels of hostility. Further analysis for finding out the interrelationbetween happiness and narcissism in case of married aged women also revealed that satisfactorymaintenance of conjugal relationships actually increases their ego strength and creates a self-pridein them but unmarried counterparts always guarded by a grandiose feelings and use dominance asa weapon to guard their feelings of inferiority, insecurity, inadequacy and with narcissistic traitsperceives the possible threats to their personal importance, see themselves in an unrealisticallypositive way.

Keywords:

Psychosocial profile , marital status , aged women