RT - Journal Article T1 - Investigating the simple and multiple correlation of emotional regulation with marital forgiveness and family efficacy in married female students of Islamic Azad University of Ilam JF - Ilam-University-of-Medical-Sciences YR - 2019 JO - Ilam-University-of-Medical-Sciences VO - 6 IS - 4 UR - http://jbrms.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-426-en.html SP - 29 EP - 36 K1 - Marital forgiveness K1 - Emotional regulation K1 - Family efficacy K1 - Students K1 - Married AB - Introduction: Emotional regulation and marital forgiveness are among the factors that affect family efficacy. The present study was conducted to investigate the simple and multiple correlations of emotional regulation and marital forgiveness, and family efficacy in married female students of Islamic Azad University of Ilam. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive correlational study. In order to conduct this research, 351 married female students were selected through convenience sampling method. For data collection, the marital forgiveness questionnaire, emotional regulation and efficacy scale were used. After collecting data, they were analyzed by SPSS software, Pearson correlation and multivariate regression. Results: there is a significant positive relationship between emotion regulation and family efficacy among married female students of Islamic Azad University (r = 0.49, P = 0.001). Also, there was a significant positive relationship between marital forgiveness and family efficiency in married female students of Islamic Azad University (r = 0.44, P = 0.001). In addition, the regression of the prediction of the efficacy of the students' family is significant regarding the variables of marital forgiveness and emotional regulation, so that the variables together predict 29% of the variance of the criterion variable (family efficacy in students). Conclusion: Marital forgiveness and emotional regulation are effective in family efficacy in married female students. Educational authorities and activists should pay attention to the role of marital forgiveness and emotional regulation, and apply the results of the present study. LA eng UL http://jbrms.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-426-en.html M3 ER -