Examination to marital problem solving skills in terms of emotional intelligence and perceived parental relationship on married individuals

This study are conduct on 342 married individuals (226 females, 116 males) to determine whether married individuals are able to predict emotional intelligence and perceived parental relationship in their marital problem solving skills. The study is design according to the relational screening model. The data are collected over the internet. "Personal Information Form", "Marital Problem Solving Scale", " Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire – Short Form" and " Perceived Parental Relationship Behavior Scale" are use as data collection tools in the study. The data are analysis by independent sample t test, two way ANOVA, multiple linear regression and hierarchical regression methods in the IBM SPSS Statistics 22 package program. According to the findings of the research, problem solving skills in marriage differs in terms of the time of marriage, the birth of a child, the one who initiates the conflict, and the health status of one's spouse istatiscally significant while it does not differ istatistically significant in terms of sex, age, working status, and his/her own health problem. At the same time, it seems that problem-solving skills in marriage do not have a gender effect on the marriage duration, the child ownership and the differentiation according to who started the conflict. Gender does not affect the problem solving skills of marriage according to age and working status. The problem solving ability of married individuals related to marriage is significantly related to perceived mother disinterested, protective and democratic attitudes; it is seen that there is no meaningful relationship with perceived mother's authoritarian and dependent attitudes, on contrary. The ability to solve problems related to marriage is significantly related to perceived father-authoritarian, indifferent, protective and democratic attitudes; it is seen that there is no meaningful relation with perceived father-dependent attitudes. In addition, problem solving skills in marriage can be predicted by emotional intelligence in the first place and mother democratic and dependent attitudes in perceived parental relations in the second place whereas the perceived father does not predict parental relationships. Findings are discuss in the light of literature and suggestions for clinicians and next researches are present.