. Ahmad Ali Eslami; . Akbar Hasanzadeh; . Farid Jamshidi
Volume 4, Issue 1 , February 2014, , Pages 1-6
Abstract
Introduction: Marriage is known as the most important incident in everyone’s life after birth. Themost important purpose of marriage is achieving a life followed with love and ...
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Introduction: Marriage is known as the most important incident in everyone’s life after birth. Themost important purpose of marriage is achieving a life followed with love and affection besidethe spouse and providing mental comfort and general health. The aim of the present study isto investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence health and marital satisfactionamong married people. Materials and Methods: The research method is descriptive- analyticand its design is comparative, done on 226 people including 114 persons (50 women and64 men) having marital conflicts, and 112 people (58 women and 54 men) having maritalsatisfaction, by cluster random sampling from 13 districts of the city of Isfahan. Bar-on (with90 questions) and Enrich marital satisfaction (115 questions) questionnaires were usedfor collecting the required information. The data was analyzed using descriptive statisticsincluding independent t-tests, Pearson correlation, and linear regression analysis, usingSPSS software version 19. Results: The results from the research showed that the scores ofemotional intelligence in married people group having marriage conflicts who had referred tothe administration of justice was 57.3 ± 13.2, and the random sample from the married peoplein the city of Isfahan as the comparing group had the score of 67.2 ± 9.5, and the difference ofthe average scores for the emotional intelligence for the two groups was significant (P < 0.001).The correlation analysis showed that there was a significant and positive relation betweenemotional intelligence and marital satisfaction (P < 0.001, r = 0.529). The results of linearregression also showed that the general emotional intelligence predicts the quality of maritalsatisfaction. The emotion of the predicting line of the marital satisfaction score (y) is in the formof: y = 14.8 + 0.656x, by using the emotional intelligence score (x). Conclusion: Regardingthe close relations between emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction, education centerssuch as universities, organizations and family clinics could use this variable in micro- andmacro-social plans for improving the quality of the married people relations and promotinghealth of the families and the society.