Investigation of the relationship between perfectionism, emotional intelligence and forgiveness among individuals with romantic relationships

The subject of this thesis is the evaluation of relationship between the perfectionism, emotional intelligence and forgiveness behaviour of the individuals who have romantic relationship. The relationship of these three variables with each other, whether the levels of dependent variables differed between the groups formed on the basis of socio-demographic and other characteristics (gender, marital status, employment status, introvert-extrovert) were investigated. In addition, it was investigate the role of perfectionism and emotional intelligence levels in subjective forgiveness. Relational screening model was used in the research. The universe of the research consists of married couples and singles who have a romantic relationship. The sample of the study consists of 304 adults selected by convenience sampling method. Personal Information Form, Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, Heartland Forgiveness Scale and Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale were used to collect data in the study. "IBM SPSS Ver.25" package program was used for the analysis of the obtained data. When the findings are examined, it is seen that there are significant relationships between perfectionism, emotional intelligence and forgiveness levels in adults with romantic relationships. There is a significant and negative relationship between the participants' perfectionism scores and their forgiveness scores. In addition, there is a significant and positive relationship between the participants' forgiveness scores and emotional intelligence scores. According to the intergroup comparison results, perfectionism, emotional intelligence and forgiveness differ according to socio-demographic variables. According to the results of the regression analysis, perfectionism and emotional intelligence predict forgiveness. The findings were discussed on the basis of the literature.