A Meta-Analysis of Sociological Causes of a Tendency to Divorce in Iran (During 2007- 2017)

According to Hadiths, the phenomenon of divorce is the most hated Halal of God. By the increasing rate of divorce in the mid-2000s, experts of social sciences took divorce as a social-cultural issue into consideration and lots of studies were conducted on it; thus, the present research was conducted with the purpose of investigating the sociological causes of a tendency to divorce in Iran in related studies done during 2007-2017. After reviewing 100 research papers and 50 valid dissertations, 55 studies conducted during 2007-2017 were selected in order to be analyzed in this research. A meta-analysis of 260 tests extracted from these studies showed that the average of the effect size of individual causes, structural causes, selective causes, causes received from the family and friends, social causes, and communication causes between couples were, respectively, 0.423, 0.392, 0.353, 0.258, 0.393, and 0.382. Analyzing the output model by using the theory of four-dimensional growth of effects showed that although the correlation comes from individuals, couples, families, or societies, it results into a cause of divorce when it is accompanied by all individual, couple, family, and social effects, and if these effects are not created by this correlation or if its intensity is low or very little, this correlation does not result into a divorce.