Page No.79-86
Suvarna Joshi and Nutankumar S. Thingujam
University of Pune, Pune.
The present study was aimed at examining the relationship between emotional
intelligence and marital adjustment over and above personality dimensions and
social desirability. The sample comprised of 60 married couples. They responded
to a set of four self-reported scales of the above variables. Results showed that
cohesion and overall marital adjustment were related to all the sub-scales and
overall emotional intelligence. Consensus and satisfaction subscales of marital
adjustment were also related to overall and subscales of emotional intelligence
except utilizing emotion subscale. Further results indicated that overall emotional
intelligence’s correlation with overall marital adjustment remained significant
after controlling for social desirability, extraversion, agreeableness, and
conscientiousness. Perception of emotion’s correlation with overall marital
adjustment, consensus remained significant after controlling for extraversion
and openness. Managing self emotion’s correlation with overall marital
adjustment, satisfaction, and cohesion remained significant after controlling for
social desirability, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and
neuroticism. The other correlations did not remain statistically significant after
controlling social desirability and significant personality dimensions