In her master's thesis, the author investigated the relationship between emotional expressiveness, psychosomatic symptoms and satisfaction with the family. The theoretical part is divided into three chapters. The first chapter describes emotions, theories of emotions, the division of emotions, the function of emotions and the expression of emotions. Chapter 2 is divided into two sub-chapters. The first sub-chapter is devoted to a description of stress and the stress response, types of stress, the physiology of stress, the consequences of stress and stress management techniques, while the second sub-chapter provides an explanation of psychosomatic disorders and their general characteristics, a description of the personality structures of individual psychosomatic disorders, and an explanation of the relationship between relational trauma and psychosomatic symptoms. Chapter 3 is devoted to the description of emotion and emotional expression in the family in relation to the quality of interpersonal relationships. In the empirical part, the author used a quantitative method to examine the frequency of psychosomatic symptoms in 252 participants, 55 men and 197 women. The analysis showed that there is a statistically significant positive correlation between satisfaction with one's own family and positive family emotional expressiveness and that there is a statistically significant positive correlation between negative family emotional expressiveness and psychosomatic symptoms. There is a trend that the higher the negative emotional expressiveness of the family in which individuals grew up, the more psychosomatic the symptoms. The study found that there is a statistically significant negative correlation between satisfaction with one's family and psychosomatic symptoms, with a trend that the more satisfied individuals are with their family and family life, the fewer psychosomatic symptoms they experience. The study also found that women experience more psychosomatic symptoms than men, and that there are no statistically significant differences in satisfaction with family between men and women.
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