Impact of individual’s perception of sexual relationships on their overall life satisfaction, self-esteem, family environment, gender orientation and emotional intelligence

Abstract

To study different age groups of individual’s perception on sexual relationship (dependent variable) and the impact of age, gender, life Satisfaction, Self Esteem, Family Cohesion, Social Desirability, Value Orientation¬, Gender Orientation, Emotional Intelligence (independent variables) on individuals perception, eight different scales were used for the study such as Perception on sexual relationship Scale (PSRS), Multidimensional students life satisfaction scale (MSLSS), Modified Life satisfaction scale for married respondents, Rosenberg self-esteem scale, Social Desirability Scale, Family environment scale, ESS Human Values Scale, Gender stereotype scale, Sub scales of Emotional Intelligence –Inventory were used and scores were calculated. Based on scores respondents were categorized in different categories as high, moderate and low etc. This paper gives an overview of how different age group of individual’s perception on sexual relationship affect their overall life satisfaction, self-esteem, family environment, gender orientation, and emotional intelligence.