Numerous researchers place great importance on the quality of relationships with parents, subjective well-being, sexual experiences and spiritual involvement, which they associate with the individual’s quality of life. Although many researches discuss the interconnectivity of the mentioned fields, we have not come across a single research in Slovenia or globally, that would combine them all. In the master's thesis, we were interested in how the quality of emotional experience in relationships with parents, satisfaction with life, positive and negative emotionality, sexual awareness and spiritual involvement are connected. At the same time, we wanted to explore how gender affects the variables mentioned above. The sample included 1047 participants, of which 931 were female and 116 male. Their age ranged from 16 to 80 years. We evaluated the quality of emotional experiences and relationships with parents with the Emotional parenting Questionnaire (Ţugman 2012). To assess subjective welfare, we used the SWLS Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin 1985) and the PANAS Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (Watson, Clark, and Tellegen 1988). Sexual awarenesswas evaluated using the SAS Sexual Awareness Scale (Snell, Fisher and Miller, 1991) and spiritual integration using the SAIL Spiritual Attitude and Involvement List (Meezenbroek et al. 2012). The results showed,that the individual`s quality of emotional experiences and relationships with parents has an important and positive affect on life satisfaction, positive emotionality, sexual awareness and spiritual involvement. There is also a significant negative connection between negative emotionality, the quality of emotional experiences and relationships with parents, life satisfaction, positive emotionality, sexual awareness and spiritual involvement. Individuals with quality emotional experiencesand relationships with their parents are happier with their lives, they experience more positive and less negative feelings, are more sexually aware and spiritually involved. Furthermore, significant gender differences in the field of research do not exist, with the exception of spiritual involvement, where men express a higher degree of involvement in spiritual activities than women.
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