Effectiveness of Emotional Skills Training on Increasing Emotional Intelligence and Couple Happiness of Married Women Students in IsfahanUniversity

Since advanced emotional intelligence can be useful in many aspects of life, the people who own this kind of intelligence will have an emotional and suitable life, so purpose of this research is investigation of effectiveness of emotional skills training on increasing emotional intelligence and couple happiness of married women students in Isfahan University. This research was based on a semi-experimental, pre-test and post-test with control group study. This was conducted on 30 married women students. They were divided into two experimental and control groups by random sampling method. Eight ninety minute sessions of emotional skills training were conducted on experimental group.Instruments were Furnham’s emotional intelligence questionnaire and Tagarian’s couple happiness questionnaire. Data was analyzed multi-way and way analysis of variance.The results showed that there was significant difference between groups in emotional skills, emotional intelligence and couple happiness. So emotional skills training can play a main role in improving stable relationship and family health.