Predicting marriage without failure based on self-conscious emotions with the mediating role of emotion regulation styles in housewives in the first 10 years of their marriage.
Subject Areas : Islamic-Iranian Family Studies Journal
Mahdieh Momtaz
1
,
Azra Mohammadpanah Ardakan
2
*
,
یاسر رضاپور میرصالح
3
1 - MSc in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanistic and Social Sciences, Ardakan University, Yazd, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanistic and Social Sciences, Ardakan University, Yazd, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanistic and Social Sciences, Ardakan University, Yazd, Iran
Keywords: Unbroken marriage, conscious affect, emotion regulation styles, housewives,
Abstract :
Introduction and Objective: The present study aimed to predict a marriage without failure through self-conscious emotion directly and also predict it through the mediation of emotion regulation styles.
Materials and Methods: The design of this study is descriptive and correlational. 225 housewives living in Dehaqan city were selected through random sampling method in 1401-1402. The subjects completed the TOSCA-2 self-conscious emotion questionnaire, Hodgson's (1992) marital satisfaction, and Gross and John's emotion regulation questionnaire.
Findings: The research findings indicated that self-conscious affect predicted marriage without failure both directly (P < 0.01, β -0.31) and indirectly through the repressed emotion regulation style (P < 0.01, β -0.21) and reappraisal emotion regulation style (P < 0.01, β = 0.17). In such a way that self-conscious affect has an inverse relationship with marriage without failure, and increasing feelings of shame and guilt causes a decrease in marriage without failure. On the other hand, self-conscious emotions can indirectly affect a marriage without failure, such that if a person uses the reappraisal emotion regulation style when feeling shame and guilt, the rate of a marriage without failure increases to the same extent, and if she uses the suppression emotion regulation style, the rate of a marriage without failure decreases.
Conclusion: The results of the study show that self-conscious emotion affects marriage without failure both directly and indirectly through the emotion regulation styles of suppression and reappraisal.
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