Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
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Master of Educational Psychology, psychology and consultation department, psychology and educational sciences, payame Noor university, Iran.
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Assistant professor of clinical psychology, psychology and consultation department، psychology and educational sciences, Payame Noor university, Tehran , Iran
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Assistant professor, department of psychology Payame Noor university, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Abstract
Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotional control and emotion regulation with marital satisfaction in couples aged 20-45 years.
Methods: The present study was a descriptive-correlational analytical study in which the statistical population was all couples aged 20-45 years in Torbat-e Heydarieh city in 2017. 378 of them were selected by random cluster sampling method. All of them were emotional control questionnaires ( Roger and Nashvor, 1987), complemented the thriller (Garnevsky et al., 2001) and marital satisfaction (Owen and Iran, 1989).
Results: The findings showed that emotional regulation and control were able to significantly and positively predict changes in marital satisfaction. Also, the dimensions of emotional control, including aggression control, mental rumination and benign control, and self-regulation, including self-blame, mental rumination, acceptance, reintegration into planning, visibility, and reassessment, and catastrophic perception were able to significantly alter marital satisfaction. Predict (P <0.05).
Conclusion: According to this finding, psychologists and counselors should pay attention to the dimensions of discipline and emotional control and plan and implement programs based on them to increase marital satisfaction of couples.
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