Volume 11, Issue 1, April 2015, Pages 63–68
Afshan Qureshi1
1 Department of Sociology, Bahauddin Zakaria University, Multan, Pakistan
Original language: English
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Women are the most essential part of our society; without women our society cannot move. There are several social & psychological factors which make a women mentally retarded. Researcher used case study method. In this qualitative research a sample of 10 respondents was selected by using purposive sampling from Multan city for in-depth study. The study concluded the causes of mental disorder were domestic violence, exchange marriages, marriages as migration from rural to urban areas, none of cultural adjustment.
Author Keywords: Women, Mentally retarded, violence, exchange marriages & cultural adjustment.
Afshan Qureshi1
1 Department of Sociology, Bahauddin Zakaria University, Multan, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Women are the most essential part of our society; without women our society cannot move. There are several social & psychological factors which make a women mentally retarded. Researcher used case study method. In this qualitative research a sample of 10 respondents was selected by using purposive sampling from Multan city for in-depth study. The study concluded the causes of mental disorder were domestic violence, exchange marriages, marriages as migration from rural to urban areas, none of cultural adjustment.
Author Keywords: Women, Mentally retarded, violence, exchange marriages & cultural adjustment.
How to Cite this Article
Afshan Qureshi, “SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF MENTAL DISORDER AMONG THE FEMALES OF DISTRICT MULTAN,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 63–68, April 2015.
