REGULASI EMOSI DUA PASANGAN MENIKAH DENGAN PROSES TA’ARUF DI YOGYAKARTA
Abstract
This study aims to describe the emotion regulation of couples married through the ta'aruf process and to know the factors that influence emotion regulation that couples. The subjects in this study were two married couples who were married through the ta'aruf process. To study emotion regulation of the subjects, the researcher uses a qualitative approach in descriptive form. The data techniques used are interviews, observation, and documentation. The data analyzed through back and forth process of data collection, data presentation, data reduction and conclusions that all carried out in a separate process.
This study found that many factors influence emotion regulation after marriage. Husband and wife will find many problems in their marriage ranging from problems between husband and wife to family problems with the surrounding environment. A method to handle marriage problems is the emotion regulation of the couple. A good emotion regulation makes the couples able to adjust each other finance, a daily habit, social relations, family relations, and personality.
The result of the emotion regulation of married couples who married through the ta'aruf process in Yogyakarta is the couple able to understand each other personality and shortcomings more easily. It is important for the couple married thorough ta’aruf process only meet in limited time and occasions. They communicate through murabbi or their religious teacher firstly before the marriage so there is unrevealed information. For the reason, the couples feel difficult to adjust each other in the first years of their marriage. However, the couples in this study feel their adjustment process in marriage becomes easier in the years after. The couples attribute the easiness they feel in adjustment for the good intentions that they believe that the marriage through the ta’aruf process is for the sake of Allah. They feel that everything seems to be facilitated by Allah SWT. This beliefs or rationalization help them to manage and provide a better response for their spouse at the time of trouble. This shows the emotion regulation in both partners is good, they can solve when problems faced with stable emotion