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Title PARENTAL REJECTION AND RELATIONSHIP QUALITY OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: LOOKING THROUGH THE PRISM OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Author(s) Maria Mukhtar

Abstract Parental rejection can let individuals think themselves as unworthy of love, causing lifelong adverse consequences socially, psychologically, emotionally effecting relationships of individuals throughout life. Present study was conducted to see the impact of parental rejection on relationship quality and to explore the role of emotional intelligence and communication apprehension in university students. Research consisted of two phases, pilot study and main study. Pilot study was carried out to examine the psychometric properties, practicality and relevancy of instruments in local population. The pilot study was conducted using inclusion criteria on a sample of 100 university students (46% males, 54% females) with age range of 19-24 years by convenient sampling representing whole population. Main study sample consisted of 508 university students (girls = 245, boys = 263) aged 19 to 24 years (M = 21.62, SD = 1.74) were selected from Islamabad and Rawalpindi. English versions of Parental Acceptance Rejection Questionnaire (Rohner, 1991), Network of Relationships (Furman & Buhrmester, 1985), State-Trait Anxiety inventory (Spielberger, 1983) and Trait Meta-Mood scale (Salovey & Mayer, 1995) were used. Data was analyzed statistically through SPSS-25. Measures used in study depicted satisfactory and acceptable reliability. Results indicated that parental rejection is significantly negatively correlated with closeness in relationship with parents whereas significantly positively related with discord in relationship with parents (p > .05). Results indicated that communication apprehension is significantly negatively related with closeness and significantly positively related with discord in relationship with parents. Mediation analysis revealed that communication apprehension acts as mediator in parental rejection and closeness but did not mediate with discord in relationship with mother and father. Moderation analysis revealed that emotional intelligence partially moderated the relationship between parental rejection and relationship quality with parents, where emotional iii intelligence mediated between mother rejection and closeness with mother, and between father rejection and discord with father. Results also revealed boys perceived parental rejection more as compared to girls. Study further showed that students living in joint family scored higher on remembrance of mother hostility, emotional intelligence whereas students living in nuclear family system scored higher on communication apprehension.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Social Sciences

Department Psychology

Language English

Publication Date 2024-10-09

Subject Psychology

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