Predicting Emotional Maturity Based on Family Emotional Atmosphere, Perfectionism and Perceived Stress in Young Couples
Keywords:
Emotional maturity, Family emotional atmosphere, Perfectionism, Perceived stress, Young couplesAbstract
The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the prediction of emotional maturity based on the emotional atmosphere of the family and perceived perfectionism and stress in young couples, which in terms of practical purpose; it was descriptive in nature and correlational in terms of research method. The statistical population of the present study includes all young couples who have passed one year of marriage and visited the counseling clinics of Tunkabon city in the spring and summer of 2023, and their number is 230 couples, 140 of them according to Morgan's table, using a simple random sampling method. As an example of the current research, the selection and questionnaires of emotional maturity or Singh and Bhargava, Hillburn's emotional atmosphere in the family, Hill's perfectionism and perceived stress was answered by Cohen et al.. After collecting the data, the data was analyzed using the step-by-step multivariate regression analysis method with the help of SPSS version 27 software. The results showed that there is a significant negative relationship between negative perfectionism and perceived stress with emotional maturity, and there is a positive relationship between positive perfectionism and emotional family atmosphere with emotional maturity.
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