The emotional intelligence and the quality of romantic relationships

Abstract

Cilj istraživanja bio je ispitati odnos emocionalne inteligencije i kvalitete braka. Pri tome se nastojalo utvrditi doprinose li rezultati na samoprocjenama i testovima emocionalne inteligencije objašnjenju kvalitete braka odmjerene samoprocjenama i procjenama bračnog partnera. Također se provjeravalo postoje li razlike u kvaliteti braka među bračnim parovima različitih dijadnih kompozicija emocionalne inteligencije. U istraživanju je sudjelovalo 98 bračnih parova u dobi od 19 do 60 godina s područja Osijeka i okolice. Korišteni su sljedeći instrumenti: Upitnik emocionalne kompetentnosti, Test analize emocija, Test upravljanja emocijama, Indeks kvalitete braka i Petofaktorski upitnik ličnosti. Unatoč očekivanjima, rezultati pokazuju da mjere emocionalne inteligencije ne doprinose objašnjenju samoprocjena kvalitete braka. Međutim, Test upravljanja emocijama je značajni, pozitivni prediktor indeksa kvalitete braka partnera/ice, ali ne doprinosi objašnjenju globalnih procjena kvalitete braka (bračne sreće). Nadalje je dobiveno da se skupine bračnih parova različitih dijadnih kompozicija razlikuju prema kvaliteti braka procijenjenoj od strane muža, ali ne i od strane žena. Muževi parova u kojima i muž i žena sebe procjenjuju visoko emocionalno inteligentnima imaju značajno više procjene kvalitete braka, nego muževi parova u kojima i muž i žena sebe procjenjuju nisko emocionalno inteligentnima.The main objective of the research was to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and marrital quality. The aim was to examine if the results of self-reports and emotional inteligence tests explain the quality of marriage measured by self-reports and reports from the other partner. Second task was to examine if there are differences in quality of marriage between couples in different dyadic compostitiones of emotional intelligence. In this research there were 98 couples examined in ages from 19 to 60 years from Osijek area and near by. Instruments used in this research were: Questionnaire of emotional competence, Emotional analyse test, Emotion management test, Quality of marriage indeks and Big five Inventory. Contrary to the expectations, results are showing that the measurements of emotional intelligence do not contribute to explanation of self-reported marital quality. However, Emotional management test is statistically significant and positive predictor of marriage quality index of single spouse, but it doesn't contribute to explanation of global marriage quality evaluations (marriage happines). Furthermore the results show that the groups of couples with different dyadic compositions are different by marital quality by self-report of husband, but not from the self-report of the wife. In couples, the husbands in which both the husband and the wife estimate themselves highly on emotional intelligence have significantly higher estimations on marital quality, than the husbands of couples in which both the husband and the wife estimate themselves low on emotional intelligence