STUDY ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND MARITAL ADJUSTMENT AMONG MARRIED ADULTS: CORRELATIONAL STUDY

Author Name: 1. Ms. Gurjot Kaur

Volume/Issue: 04/11

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2024-71431236/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Assistant Professor, Saraswati Nursing Institute, Kurali, Punjab, India.

ABSTRACT

Background: In marriage, emotion perception, understanding, reasoning about feelings, and emotion regulation or managing are all crucial. Joy and compassion determine emotional expressiveness in marriage. It manifests itself in their interpersonal interaction by maintaining warmth, tranquilly, and maturity. Materials and Methods: A total 100 subjects were selected by stratified random sampling technique. Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS-HPD) to assess emotional intelligence and self-structured tool for marital adjustment were used to collect the data. Results: Study results depicted that among married adults’ emotional intelligence and marital adjustment mean score was 142.91 and marital adjustment mean score was 217.92. The value of r was found to be 0.45. It was found that there is positive moderate correlation between emotional intelligence and marital adjustment. Conclusion: Hence, it is concluded that there is positive moderate correlation between an emotional intelligence and marital adjustment.

Key words: Emotional Intelligence and Marital Adjustment.