Roles of Perceived Social Support and Resilience in Women's Post-Divorce Adjustment

The objective of this research was predicting post-divorce adjustment in women regarding their perceived social support and resilience. The statistical population of the research consisted of women under the auspices of Emam Khomeini (PBUH) Relief Foundation in 2016. Using available non-random sampling method, 240 divorced women were chosen as research sample. Research tools included Fisher post-divorce adjustment questionnaire (1976), Zimet multi-dimension scale of perceived social support (MSPSS) (1988), Conner and Davidson resilience questionnaire (2003). The gathered data was analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression method. Results indicated positive significant relation of perceived social support and resilience with post-divorce adjustment of women. When perceived social support and resilience of divorced women increase, it is expected that their post-divorce adjustment level enhance. According to the obtained results, it is suggested to pay enough attention to the role of perceived social support and resilience as predictive factors of women's post-divorce adjustment in order to prevent and reduce their psychological problems due to divorce in our society.