The role of interpersonal quality and communication beliefs in predicting emotional failure

Psychological research and real-life reports indicate that one of the pervasive issues in today's society is the occurrence of emotional failure. This issue can lead to dysfunction of people and affect their mental health. A more in-depth investigation of this issue requires conducting research that has not been the focus of researchers in this field in current studies.

Considering the current research gap, this study seeks to examine the role of the quality of interpersonal relationships and communication beliefs in predicting the occurrence of love shock syndrome caused by emotional failure.

This research is a descriptive-post event study that was performed using the regression method. For this purpose, first, the quality of interpersonal relationships questionnaires (Pierce, & etal, 1991), communication beliefs (Aidelson & Epstein,1982), and love trauma syndrome (Ross,1999) were created online and then through links for people with experience of emotional failure in the age 18to38 years was sent in a targeted manner in Isfahan city. After reviewing the data,89 individuals were included in the analysis. People according to the scores in the Love Trauma Syndrome Questionnaire in three groups (less than9; no emotional failure (A), between 9 to 19; emotional failure with the ability to heal spontaneously (B) and 20 and above; people with emotional failure need therapeutic intervention (C), and their scores on love trauma indicators as property variables and their scores on quality, interpersonal relationships and communication beliefs were considered as predictor variables of group membership by diagnostic analysis method.

The results indicate the achievement of two diagnostic functions that the first diagnostic function significantly was able to the variance of the groups(P<0.05). Among these, the structures of gender differences, interpersonal conflict with friends, and the depth of interpersonal relationships with friends, Respectively, they had the highest structural coefficient in predicting the incidence of love trauma syndrome in people who experienced emotional failure.

The results of this study showed that people with the experience of emotional failure and love trauma syndrome have a lower quality of interpersonal relationships (higher conflict and lower interpersonal relationships with friends) and have more communication beliefs (gender differences). Based on the obtained results, effective relationship training is recommended to the general population by experts in the field of mental health.