Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Marital Satisfaction among Married Students of Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch
Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy
Keywords: Emotional intelligence, marital satisfaction, Couples, married university students,
Abstract :
Now days, marital satisfaction has been declined between the couples; whereas, couple’s communications and conception of life could play a major role in satisfaction increase. The aim of current study was determination of the correlation between emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction among university students. To this purpose, 400 married students of Islamic Azad University, South Tehran in 2014 were randomly sampled. To measuring the emotional intelligence, TMMS questionnaire was used and also Enrich questionnaire was used to measuring the marital satisfaction. The results revealed that there is a significant positive correlation between marital satisfaction and emotional intelligence and also 37% of changes in marital satisfaction is explained by emotional intelligence. The results of stepwise regression analysis showed that components of "attention" as the most important factor has explained 30% of changes in marital satisfaction an also after that, components of “clarity” and “reconstruction” could explaining 8% and 4% of changes in marital satisfaction respectively. Also the results showed that emotional intelligence of women is more than men. Given these results, it is suggested to considering emotional intelligence training course for couples before marriage, to increase them marital satisfaction.