Emotional Intelligence and Marital Satisfaction
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2016, Vol 19, Issue 3
Abstract
Introduction: This paper aims to emphasize the influencece of emotional intelligence in marital satisfaction. The couple’s life represents an important test of emotional intelligence for each of us. The first wave of love, unconditional opening to the other appear spontaneously without any effort from our part. However, when fears and conditionings break the barriers and begin to appear, difficult parts of our relationship and love are being tested. It takes emotional virtuosity to manage negative feelings that take place on the surface and in order to keep the positive feelings that characterize the relationship in the incandescent moments of the beginning. In order to study the deep emotional currents that run across a couple relationship it is an indispensable to find out what leads to marital satisfaction respectively dissatisfaction. Objectives: The overall objective is to identify defining characteristics of emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction and the relationship between them. Specific objectives are in the following areas: to detect the difference between a stable couple partnership in terms of the partners’ emotional intelligence; to analyze the influence that the emotional intelligence of partners’ exerts on their marital satisfaction Methods: In this research 60 subjects had participated, with a mean age of 29 years, married for at least 5 years (mean 6.3 years) and living with a partner. The methodology is based on two tests: marital satisfaction index (IMS) and Scale of emotional intelligence (SIE) (Schutte et al. 1998). Results: The results obtained were statistically significant almost entirely. Even if in terms of overall emotional intelligence there are no differences, on the level of its subcomponents there are significant differences between men and women involved in stable relationships. The results have shown significant correlations between marital satisfaction and the subcomponents of emotional intelligence like balancing personal emotions and balancing emotions of others. Conclusions: The results revealed statistically significant differences in terms of personal balancing of emotions and other emotions between women and men involved in stable relationships. Thus, personal growth and individual autonomy of each partner and the development of emotional intelligence of each partner are the best way to preserve the couple’s relationship.
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Teodora C. Anghel
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