Masoud Akhgar; Maryam Fatehizade
Abstract
The present research aimed to determine the effectiveness of emotional intelligence education on marriage expectation improvement and emotional regulation skill enhancement of youth on the verge of marriage. The research method was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical ...
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The present research aimed to determine the effectiveness of emotional intelligence education on marriage expectation improvement and emotional regulation skill enhancement of youth on the verge of marriage. The research method was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population of this research was all the male students in the marriage threshold at Isfahan Shahid Bahonar Farhangian University. Among the volunteer participants in the education emotional intelligence program,30 students were selected through the voluntarily sampling method. They are into two groups (experimental and control groups). the experimental group participated in 9 sessions of emotional intelligence education. There was no intervention in to control group. The research tools were ERSQ and MES. The results showed that the idealistic expectation, realistic expectation, and emotional regulation skills were increased in the experimental group significantly in comparison with the control group. Also, the pessimistic expectation was decreased in the experimental group significantly in comparison with the control group. moreover, the results indicated that emotional intelligence education affects adjusting realistic and pessimistic expectations and improving emotional regulation skills of the male youth marriage threshold. Therefore, this package can be effects used in pre-marital education.
