Prediction of the desire to establish relationships in teenage girls based on excitement, social support and happiness

Subject Areas : Educational

Nafiseh Pourazizi ¹ , Majid Zargham Hajebi ²

1 - Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch, Iran

Received: 2019-10-14 Accepted : 2020-11-17 Published : 2022-08-23

Keywords: emotion seeking, relationship craving, female students, social support, happiness,

Abstract :

The aim of this research was to predict of the desire to establish relationships among adolescents based on emotion seeking, social support, and happiness in high school female students. The population of the study consisted of second high school female students of Qom city in 2018-2019. The sample size was 375 subjects who were calculated by Cochran formula and selected by available sampling method. Questionnaires of Crucial Relationships (1990), Zuckerman Emotion Seekers (1978), Zimet`s Social Support (1988), and Argyle Happiness (1987) were used as research tools. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the data. The results showed that among the components of excitement, adventure components with significance level = 0.001, experimentation with significance level = 0.015, diversity seeking with significance level = 0.001 and avoidance of inhibition with significance level Management = 0.001, social support with family components with significance level = 0.001 and important people with significance level = 0.001 and happiness with self-esteem component with significance level = 0.001 They can predict the desire to establish a relationship. According to the research findings, it can be concluded that excitement and happiness have a positive and significant relationship with the desire to establish a relationship and the family component of the social support variable is inversely related. As a result, the more excitement and happiness you have, the more you want to start a relationship, and the less support you have for your family, the more you want to start a relationship.

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