Predicting Social Adjustment of primary school children, based on marital conflicts and mothers’ cognitive emotion regulation skills

In the present age, each person experiences a variety of individual and social limitations in his life, and dealing with these obstacles provides the ground for the occurrence of many failures and frustrations;This problem is more pronounced in children, because in childhood, more communication with peers and less dependence on parents, this period is referred to as a stressful period. Accordingly, if a person can go through the process of socialization properly and align his needs with the needs of the society in which he lives, he will somehow reach social adequacy. in today's world more than ever require social flexibility and adaptation, which plays an important role in improving the health of people's lives.the present study was conducted with the aim of predicting the social adjustment of primary school children based on marital conflicts and cognitive emotion regulation skills of mothers.

The method of this study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population included mothers who had primary school children in the fall of 2021 in Shahrekord; A sample of 377 of them was selected by available methods. Data were collected using questionnaires of the California Scale of Social Adjustment (1953), Sanaei Marital Conflicts (2000) and Garnfsky Cognitive Emotion Regulation (2006) and analyzed by multiple regression and Pearson correlation coefficient.

Findings showed a negative and significant relationship between marital conflict and negative emotion regulation skills (P <0.01) and a positive and significant relationship between positive emotion regulation skills and social adjustment of primary school children (P <0.01).

The findings generally indicate that the existence of marital conflicts between parents and difficulties in the cognitive regulation of emotions can cause social maladaptation of children in primary school.