The role of emotional literacy in the prediction of emotional divorce by mediation conflict resolution

this study was disigned to detrmine the predictive role of emotional literacy through the mediation of conflict resolution in the emotional divorce.

the design of this study was descriptive and correlational. In this study, which was conducted in 2014-15, 178 married men and woman selected by available sampling method in order to participate in our study. Iranian family psychological function scale (IFPFS, 2012) and emotional divorce questionnaire (Gottman, 1991) were used in order to collect data. Data analyzed by Pearson correlation method and regression analysis. Data analysis performed by using SPSS 21. The study finding showed that emotional divorce predicted by variables.

results indicate emotional literacy and conflict resolution were the predictor of emotional divorce. in addition to this, emotional literacy also predicts conflict resolution. Conflict resolution had a mediator’s role between emotional literacy and emotional divorce.

the finding suggests that couples experience emotional divorce when they suffer from lack of emotional literacy and unable to resolve the conflict. Thus, reinforcement emotional literacy and identification conflict resolution styles provide the better perception of the emotional divorce etiology.