Features of the Emotional Component of Essential Self-Regulation Associated with Women's Marital Satisfaction

doi:10.26565/2410-1249-2024-21-03

Igor Kocharian General Psychology Department, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0685-5774
Daria Kuznetsova V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26565/2410-1249-2024-21-03

Keywords: essential self-regulation, emotional self-regulation, marital satisfaction, emotions, apathy

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the study of the emotional component of essential self-regulation, which is related to women's marital satisfaction. Contemporary research on various aspects of the emotional sphere of personality and their connection to marital satisfaction is analyzed. The emotional component of essential self-regulation is considered one of the psychological regulators of the tendency towards self-actualization. Marriage is one of the directions of self-actualization, in which the tendency towards self-actualization is also realized. Therefore, we hypothesized that emotional factors that hinder the tendency towards self-actualization are associated with decreased marital satisfaction. The study involved 121 women aged 25-40. The author's methodology, QDES (Questionnaire for the Diagnosis of Essential Self-Regulation), was used. The research is based on the concept of Essential Self-Regulation - a system of emotional, behavioral, and communicative mechanisms of mental self-regulation that ensures the realization of the tendency towards self-actualization. The study confirmed the hypothesis of a reverse relationship between the emotional component of essential self-regulation and marital satisfaction. It was found that among the four ways of emotional response, namely: effectiveness, ambivalence, optimum, and apathy, it is the latter - apathy - that has a significant inverse correlation with women's marital satisfaction. A single-factor linear regression analysis between the variables of apathy and marital satisfaction showed mutual influence, allowing us to speak of a vicious circle, where if a woman tends to respond with low emotional tone - apathetically, she will also be inclined to perceive the marriage without enthusiasm, and vice versa, when a woman perceives her marriage as unsatisfactory, it predisposes to apathy.

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