Emotional regulation and life satisfaction among housewives

Abstract

Emotional regulation refers to the extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions towards situations and experiences. The ability to appraise (cognitive reappraisal) situations and the expression of one’s emotions (emotional suppression) is defined as emotional regulation skills. Life satisfaction is the subjective evaluation of an individual’s own life. This study aimed to study the impact of emotional regulation on life satisfaction among housewives. A purposive sampling of 200 housewives was done belonging to middle socio-economic strata. The measures used in the study were Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). Quantitative analysis using correlation method and z-score was done. The results point out that there was a significant effect of emotional suppression and cognitive reappraisal on life satisfaction. A positive correlation of 0.78 was found between emotional regulation and life satisfaction.