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Family Connectedness: A Predictive role of Family Communication, Jealousy and Interpersonal Difficulties in University Students

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Rasham Arshad, Sana Daud,Dharmendra Sharma,Prateek Kumar Singh

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Emotional Intelligence is a vital psychological construct useful for enhancing the digital To find out the relationship between family connectedness That is playing a predictive role in family communication, jealousy, and interpersonal difficulties in post-graduate university students. This cross-sectional study was done in private educational institutions (universities) in Lahore from May to July 2020. Data were collected from the students with their consent by using the predesigned questionnaires. Data were explored by using SPSS version 21. A sample of N=150 (men=87) and (women=83) the age range was 22-25 years and (Mean=23.62, Standard Deviation=.98) were included in this study. We found that family communication has a negative significant relationship with jealousy (p<0.01) and with interpersonal difficulties (p<0.05). A significant mean difference was found in gender that men have more interpersonal difficulties than females (p<0.05). The results of regression revealed that gender is a significant negative predictor of interpersonal difficulties (p<.05) whereas jealousy is a positive significant predictor of interpersonal difficulties in post-graduate university students (p<.001).

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