An Impact of Impulsivity, Frustration Intolerance and Violence on Media on Emotional Regulation of Married Menopausal Women

Abstract

The present research was conducted to explore the impact of impulsivity, frustration intolerance and of violence on media on the emotional regulation of married women of Pakistan. The research tries to find out the link between impulsivity, frustration intolerance and violence expressed on media with emotional disturbance in women in menopausal age so that the significant causes of disturbance and emotional sufferings in women would be disclosed and their quality of life would be improved. Correlation design was used to explore the relationship among variables and purposive sample of 300 women were taken that were married and in menopausal age. The age of the women was 40 to 55 years old. Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (Barrat, 1994), Distress Tolerance Scale (Azhar & Saleem, 2017), Content Based Media Violence Scale (Hamer et al., 2017) and Scale for the Difficulties in Emotional Regulation (Dan-Glauser & Scherer, 2013) were provided to the participants along with demographics sheet. The result reported that impulsivity, frustration intolerance and role of violence on media have a significant positive correlation with emotional dysregulation of married women in menopausal phase. The study can be helpful to comprehend the causes of emotional disturbance or dysregulation in menopausal women. It would also create consciousness in people how media has an impact on married women and would give peep into the issues of married menopausal women. This study would also be very helpful for the clinical purpose especially to the psychologist to understand the role of impulsivity, intolerance to frustration and expression of violence on media while providing therapy or counselling to menopausal married women.