The Relationship between Humor and Difficulty In Setting Excitement With Quality Of Marital Relationship In Female Nurses In Ahvaz Hospitals

Subject Areas : Psychology

Firoozeh Faraji ¹ , Amin Koraei ²

1 - Islamic Azad University Ahvaz Branch, Department of Consulting, Ahvaz, Iran.
2 - Islamic Azad University Ahvaz Branch, Department of Consulting, Ahvaz, Iran.

Received: 2017-11-26 Accepted : 2018-02-25 Published : 2018-03-21

Keywords: humor, female nurses, quality of marital relationship, difficulty in setting excitement,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between humor and difficulty in regulating excitement and the quality of marital relationship in female nurses. The population of this study was all married female nurses in Ahwaz city hospitals. A sample of 180 nurses were selected through simple random sampling. The research was descriptive-correlational. Data were collected by Norton Marriage Quality Questionnaire (1983), Sadat Khoshui and colleagues Humor Questionnaire (2009) and Grats and Romer's (2004) Emotional Regulation Scale. Data analysis was performed via using Pearson's simple correlation coefficient and multiple regression. The results of simple correlation coefficient showed that there was a significant correlation between humor and difficulty components in emotional regulation, including the component of non-acceptance of emotional responses, problems in the management of targeted behaviors, problems with impulse control, lack of emotional awareness, lack of access to emotional regulation strategies and lack of emotional clarity with the quality of marital relationship. The results of stepwise regression analysis revealed that the variables of humor, the components of problems in the management of targeted behaviors, lack of emotional awareness, and the component of problems in controlling the impulse were the significant most important predictors of the marital quality of female nurses.

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