Assessment of induceing factors on divorce: An exploration Analysis

Divorce is considered as a event with social – economic and psychological consequences. In the recent years, the rate of divorce increased in many countries and in our country. Studying the reasons of divorce is the first step for prevention of this pathological events. the aim of current research was investigating the factors and causes of divorce from point of couple’s view that had referred to judicial courts. Mothod: The sample contained 314 persons who were selected according to the convenience sampling procedure. The questionnaire contained demographic and checklist of marital problems of couples with 28 items was made by authors of this article. The method was descriptive and classifying the problems with factor analysis. women were the majority of divorce requesting; more than half of the persons had not the candidate period; more than %65 of persons had not any investigation about their spouses before marriage. About %30 of persons married in spite of disagreement of their parents. More than %55 of persons had lived together less than 5 years; only %16 of couples had sought help from other for solving their marital problems. For classifying divorce factors, exploratory factor analysis revealed 3 factors as follows: First, interesting to family; second, sexual satisfaction-preoccupation with new marriage in future; third, imposed marriage-duration of marriage. The results showed that lacking enough information necessary for marriage in couples and lacking marital skills for managing marital relationship, may cause important problems and maladaptive situation of living for couples. Finding of this research can be useful for giving guidance for especially  new married couples, and all spouses.