The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence Components and Marital Adjustment of Married graduate Students in Birjand Islamic Azad University Download PDF

The present study was conducted in the form a descriptive-correlational research to investigate the relationship between life orientation and emotional intelligence with marital adjustment of married graduate students of the Islamic Azad University of Birjand (branches of Humanities) in the academic year of 2015-2016. For this purpose, 196 people were selected by simple random sampling method. Of these, 180 people completed Sieber or Schering Emotional Intelligence questionnaire and Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test (LWMAT). To analyze the data, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis was used. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between emotional intelligence components (self-motivation, self-control, social consciousness and social skills) with marital adjustment and emotional intelligence components explain up to 28% of variance of marital adjustment.