Predicting Marital Instability based on Emotion Regulation Skills and Identity Styles

Document Type : پژوهشی

Authors

1 University of Kharazmi

2 University of Bojnord

3 University of Tarbiatmodareses

Abstract

Purpose: Current study aimed to predict Marital instability based on Identity styles and Emotion regulation skills among married women in Qouchan.
Methodology: 331 female Teachers were selected using single-stage cluster random sampling and were asked to answer the Identity Style Questionnaires (ISI-6G), Emotion Regulation Skill Questionnaires (ERSQ) and Marital Instability Index (MII). Data were analyzed using, Pearson product moment correlation, and Stepwise regression methods.
Findings: results showed that there is significant negative correlation between informative identity style (r= -0.40), normative identity style (r= -0.30), and emotion regulation skill (r= -0.35) with marital instability. Also the positive relationship between diffused-avoidant identity Style (r= 0.33) and marital instability was statistically significant. Results also showed that information identity, diffused-avoidant identity, normative identity, and emotion regulation skills significantly predict marital instability. According to the findings, Identity styles played the greatest role in predicting the criterion variable. Therefore, we can conclude that, if married female teachers have a comprehensive self-understanding with high abilities on their emotion regulation, their marriage would be more stable.

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