Marriage

Marriage

The presented research suggests that relationships are not affected by the emotions suffered but its how one relates to them skillfully when it comes to behavior. Identification of emotions and attending to them is what is considered as skill applied to emotions. The research proposes that emotional skills such as ability to identify emotions, express emotions, empathize and manage challenging emotions are essential in maintaining a healthy partnership. The skill applied in the experiencing of emotions varies from one individual to another. As per the studies carried out, results have revealed that men’s and women’s awareness of their own emotions is correlated with indicators of marital health as marital satisfaction and fondness.

The intimacy process brought about by emotional skillfulness affects marital health as contended by the research. The theory of intimacy in consideration to the research is that intimacy is a process generated by events in which one person’s vulnerable behavior is reinforced by the response of another Cordova and Scott (2001). Positive behaviors and negative behaviors are interpersonally vulnerable in consideration of one’s history. In intimate partnerships the reinforcement of an expressed behavior leads to interpersonally vulnerable behavior to one of the partner in a relationship. Still there’s high probability of a behavior expressed to occur again once it is reinforced. This eventually leads to punishment of the other partner. Behavior itself is considered interpersonally vulnerable to the extent that it is associated with punishment. Intimate partnerships are characterized by intimate and suppressive events, where those with more intimate than suppressive events considered being much safer.

Emotional skills affect marital health; this is due to their effect to the intimacy process in the reinforcement of a vulnerable behavior. The effects vary in consideration to the way of communication in regard to the identified emotions. In relation to gender, men are less likely to express their emotions than women they have even been found to have a difficulty in identifying and communicating their emotions. On the other hand women tend to be good in expressing their emotions as well as communicating and identifying them. Men have been found to report greater fear of intimacy especially those with greater gender role. Claims in regard to the lower rates of cardiovascular diseases in women and low depression rates in men have been associated with this phenomenon. It has been found that husbands’ ability to communicate emotions is associated with wives’ marital adjustment together with intimate safety. As per assumptions in regard to gender difference in emotional expressiveness among couples hypotheses have been formulated to test this with the results giving adequate data.

The data portrayed by the research pertaining to men difficulty in communicating emotions, showed a higher score by men in this difficulty. Results therefore preliminarily supported the general theory of difficulty in communication and identification of emotions by men. In regard to the effects of one partners’ emotional skillfulness on the other partners’ marital adjustment and intimate safety, wives’ emotional skills were not significantly related to their husbands’ marital adjustments and intimate health as per the data shown on research. Results supported the research’s general theory by showing, husbands’ emotional skills and wives’ marital adjustments association is mediated by wives’ intimate safety.

Conclusion

The research proves that emotional skills are associated with an individuals own marital adjustment and intimate safety. The result reflected in regard to the hypothesis formulated provides support to the suggested theory that emotion skills affect marital health through their direct effect in the process of intimacy development. This allows for the applicability of the research though the effect implied by the theory cannot be inferred from the data provided in the research. On regard to the general theory of difficulty in men identifying and communicating their emotions, results showed that men have difficulty in communicating emotions but did not support the assumption that men have difficulty in identifying their emotions. This has opposed previous researches which suggested and evidenced that men have a difficulty in identifying emotions. The research itself inquires that the direction of effect implied by the data cannot be inferred by the data provided. It suggests that more research is required to determine whether there is a gender difference in ability to identify emotions.

This guarantees the researchers conclusions in comparison to the contentions and the displayed results. Inferences can be drawn from the research itself but less can be carried out from the data provided in regard to the hypothesis formulated. The research is applicable in consideration of the contentions pronounced such as the hypothesis that read, ‘men have a greater difficulty identifying and communicating emotions than women.’ ‘Skillful husbands at identifying and communicating their emotions influences how safe wives are with the marriage.’ the results preliminarily supported these hypothesis. In general, the research’s results are consistent with the theory ‘emotion skills contribute to resilient marital health for they are essential in health intimacy maintenance.’ This forms concepts inductively. The discussions make the research universally applicable thus it can be generalized in general notions or into general conclusions.