Abstract
In today’s highly stressful world the satisfaction of the married life has been decreasing. On the other hand, the people’s communications and viewpoints can have the main role to increase the satisfaction. This study is conducted for evaluation of the relationships and links between the factors of emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction in Academic members of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences. 122 people of our statistical universe have answered to the social emotional intelligence of Bar-on and Enrich marital satisfaction questionnaire. Regarding the type of the research, which was descriptive, Pearson and Spearman correlation co-efficiency and also the T test have been used. The moderately satisfied rate in this study was 68% and the emotional intelligence score was 337. Overall, emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction were not linked to the variables of gender and age. Of many aspects of marital satisfaction, interpersonal and empathy aspects were meaningfully related to the variable of gender, regarding the statistics. Also, of many aspects of emotional intelligence, the one for responsibility between men and women was only meaningfully different, regarding the statistics. Total score of emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction were not meaningfully linked to gender. Generally, all the variables of emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction had a statistical meaningful relationship. 37% of marital satisfaction is predictable by emotional intelligence. Regarding the high relationship between emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction, it is greatly recommended that the related educational organizations of the country pay more attention to teach necessary skills to increase emotional intelligence so that matrimony is improved and family foundation is stronger.
Highlights
The family has always been one of the most important parts of each society in the history of mankind and in all countries
The current study aims to study the correlation of different elements of emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction among the members of Rafsanjan Medical University faculty
The target population in this research was the Academic members of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences
Summary
The family has always been one of the most important parts of each society in the history of mankind and in all countries. From the second half of the 1970s, satisfaction has been declining; but many couples prefer to stay in a state of conflict or mere indifference In spite all these discouraging information about marriage, many people opt to marry. Salovey and Assistants state that, in marriage therapy, emotional intelligence can be taught, the more skills couples learn, the more they improve their communications and insight [9,10]. Existing deficiencies in emotional and affectional competence of couples, in addition to other factors, will have unpleasant effects on their matrimony life Some of these deficiencies can be listed as: inability in self consciousness, lack of self-control, lack of sympathy and the inability to sympathize with each other, and in general, deficiency in establishing a fruitful relationship [12]. The current study aims to study the correlation of different elements of emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction among the members of Rafsanjan Medical University faculty
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