In this master`s thesis titled Education with emotional parenting style in childhood in connection with emotional coldness and satisfaction in a partner relationship in adulthood the author has researched the connection between emotional parenting style from the point of view of a grown up, emotional coldness (alexithymia) and satisfaction with one`s interpersonal or partner relationship that a person has in their adulthood, at the same time the differences between the sexes in the level of alexithymia were researched. This master`s thesis is divided in two parts, the theoretical and the empirical one. In the theoretical part, there is a presentation of education and parenting with its inevitable influence on the brain, as well as the presentation of neuro-anatomy of the human brain and further a presentation of emotions, their functioning and understanding of a child`s emotional function. The central part of the thesis contains the presentation of emotional parenting and its basic components with the terminology of emotional coldness (aleximythia), and the meaning of primal relationships for future establishing of them. In the second, empirical part there are results of a research, which was done on 289 participants, of those 218 women and 71 men, with their average age of 26.26 years. The results show a statistically important connection between the emotional parenting style and emotional parenting in adulthood, which means that the more a person assesses its parents or their parenting style as emotional, the lesser level of emotional coldness such person will show in adulthood. The conducted research has also confirmed a connection between emotional coldness and satisfaction in a partnership; while the differences between sexes in the dimension of emotional coldness could only partially be confirmed. The author has concluded, based on the data obtained, that there is a certain trend indicating that the more the parents educate with the non-emotional parenting style, the more the children will be emotional cold in their adulthood. Furthermore, she concludes that each component is connected to satisfaction in a romantic relationship; the latter is negatively connected to the higher level of emotional coldness.
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