%0 Journal Article
%T Marital satisfaction among girls with early marriage in Iran: emotional intelligence and religious orientation
%A Mehrdad Hajihasani
%A Timothy Sim
%J International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2018.1528167
%X ABSTRACT This study investigates marital satisfaction, emotional intelligence, and religious orientation among women with early marriage in Iran. The ¡®emotional intelligence scale¡¯, ¡®religious orientation scale¡¯ and ¡®marital satisfaction scale¡¯ were used and a rare set of data from 194 women with early marriage were collected. The results of Pearson¡¯s correlation showed a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction (P < 0.001, r = 0.38), and age at marriage and marital satisfaction (P < 0.005, r = 0.20). The results of the multiple linear regression analysis showed that emotional intelligence (P < 0.001, B = 0.33) and age at marriage (P < 0.05, B = 0.90) are predictive of marital satisfaction among girls with early marriage in Iran and explain 16.4% of the variation of women¡¯s marital satisfaction. A greater understanding of the factors increasing or reducing the marital satisfaction may help the marital satisfaction of women with early marriage in Iran
%U https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673843.2018.1528167