Social Psychology of Emotion: Anger Reduces Relationship Quality

Social Psychology of Emotion
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A Discussion On The Popular Belief That "Anger Reduces Relationship Quality"
Introduction
Anger occurs as responses through the experiential, physiological, and behavioral networks of an emotional system. Consequently, anger has a negative valence, such as depression, and it happens when people assess a stimulus as negative to their goals. People's beliefs regarding mental phenomena like anger are significant since they affect their responses to a domain that has relevant opportunities and challenges. Emotion is an area that consists of thousands of popular beliefs. There exist various queries about the nature of emotion, its aspects, and its relations to functioning. A similar trend appears when it comes to emotional convictions. The following paper will choose a popular belief relatable to emotions and discuss the integrity of that popular belief using empirical evidence from psychology. Our case example illustrates that rage reduces the relationship quality based on Jeans Brigg's experience with Utku Inuit in her ethnography, Never in Anger. Concurrently, the paper has briefly refused the belief by providing an example that being angry is normal. Hence, anger is manageable; it does not always have to end a relationship.
Being unable to control anger is linked to lower emotion management self-efficacy and reduced use of adaptive regulation techniques, weaker emotional competence, cognitive reappraisal, and more serious mental health complications (Besharat and Pourbohlool, (2012). Emotions are ubiquitous, strong, and predictable decision-making factors. A significant regularity emerges in the processes by which anger influences choices and decisions across realms. The paper bases its argument on the social psychology of emotion as to why romantic relationship matters, emotions in a relationship, and the regulation ad expression of anger.
Why Romantic Relationships
Romance and relationships have an illustrious and long tradition of human history. Relationships and romance are infused into human creations such as literature, folk tales, poetry, mythology, and religious texts worldwide. Even though romance in its modern form is a relatively new concept in the world today, it appears to be a pandemic obsession based on the space it dominates in pop culture (Besharat and Pourbohlool, (2012). Nevertheless, about half of all marriages are predicted to end in divorce. Many people are engaged in long or short-term non-marital intimate relationships. Anger indeed can reduce one intimacy level even to their pets (Walton, 1993). Consequently, most marriage divorces in the U.S.A are caused by expressions of anger by a spouse.
Anger leads to reduced relationship quality. As a result, the actual number of broken relationships is likely to be higher. People who leave a long-term relationship like marriage begin a fresh one, which is much more likely to fail (Besharat and Pourbohlool, 2012). In short, the absence, appearance, and value of romantic relationships affect almost all in some way. Also, relationship satisfaction is a key determining factor of a quality lifestyle. Evidence supports the theories that poor relatio...