Relationship of Social Skills and Religious Beliefs with Emotional Divorce on Client Women Referring To Ahvaz Psychological Consultant Centers

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social skills and religious beliefs with emotional divorce on women who referred to psychological consultant centers in Ahwaz city. The sample subsumed 216 female who were selected by convenience sampling procedure. The research was planned as correlation design. To collect data Guttman Emotional Divorce Scale (1995), Social skills Questionnaire (Matson 1983) and Religious Orientation Questionnaire (Alport 1967) were implemented. To analyze data Pearson correlation coefficient and multi variable regression was applied. The results showed that there was negative significant relation between intrinsicc religious orientation  and the emotional divorce. There was not any significant relation between social skills and emotional divorce. The results also indicated that there was a significant positive relationship between extrinsic religious orientation and emotional divorce. The multivariate regression analysis showed that intrinsic religious orientation and social skills respectively predicted  the emotional divorce in women who referred to psychological consultant centers in Ahwaz city.