Adult Attachment Support To Emotion Regulation When Marital Conflicts Happen To Married Women

摘要

This study aims to determine the effect of adult attachment to emotional regulation when facing marital conflicts that happen to married women. The study involved 200 married women who were in the early adult age in Makassar. The subjects of the study were chosen by using non-random sampling technique of accidental type, where the population selected is easily accessible to the researcher, and the available subjects simply became the subjects of the study without any attempt at randomization. The data were collected using adult attachment questionnaire and emotional regulation questionnaire. The data were processed using IBM SPSS statistic version 22, while to analyze how the influence of adult attachment to emotion regulation is done using linear regression. The results of this study indicate the negative influence of attachment anxiety to emotional regulation. The higher attachment of anxiety, the lower ability of emotional regulation is shown by married women and the lower attachment of anxiety of the married women, the higher the emotional regulation. In addition, the results of attachment avoidance positively affects emotional regulation; the higher the attachment avoidance, the higher emotional regulation is shown by married women when they have marital conflicts with their partners, while the lower the attachment avoidance, the lower emotional regulation is shown.