The Role of Family Emotional Atmosphere and Emotional Expression Style in the Academic Well-Being of Students With Military Parents

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of the emotional atmosphere of the family and the style of emotional expression in the academic well-being of students with military parents.

280 female students were selected by random sampling method, and the subjects were examined by Alfred B. Hillburn's Family Emotional Atmosphere Questionnaire (1964), King and Ammons' Emotional Expression Questionnaire (1990), and Pitrinen, Sweeney, and Falto's Academic Wellbeing Questionnaire (2014). Data were analyzed using statistical methods of correlation coefficient and stepwise multivariate regression by SPSS software version 23.

The results show that the variables of family emotional atmosphere and emotional expression can explain 36.4% of the variance of academic well-being. This finding indicates that with an increase of one standard deviation on the scores of emotional atmosphere of the family and expression of emotion, 0.513 and 0.155 standard deviations are added on the academic well-being scores, respectively. The emotional atmosphere of the family has a greater unique contribution in predicting the academic well-being of female students.

Therefore, the emotional atmosphere of the family and the style of emotional expression play a role in the academic well-being of students with military parents