A Study of the Impact of Dimensions Social Capital and on Emotional Divorce among Married Women in Tonekabon

One of the family's harms in the present society is dissatisfaction with marital life, reduced intimacy and emotional distance between couples, which leads to emotional divorce. Social capital as one of the important sociological variables has an effective role in the study of social harms, so the present study aimed to investigate the effect of social capital dimensions (structural and cognitive within, outside and outside the group) on emotional divorce.

This research is a quantitative and survey method whose statistical population is all married women aged 18-48 years old living in Tonekabon city and the sample size is 386 people who have been selected by quota sampling method. Data were collected using a reflective questionnaire extracted from previous research.

The results showed that some different dimensions of social capital such as (intragroup structure, cognitive group and extragroup) with 99% confidence level have a negative impact on emotional divorce and other dimensions of social capital (structural and cognitive group) with 99% confidence has a positive effect on women's emotional divorce. Also, extra-group structural capital has not had a significant effect on emotional divorce.

According to the results, different dimensions of structural and cognitive social capital (intra-group, extra-group and extra-group) have a different effect on emotional divorce, so more attention should be paid to the potential of social capital in changing the incompatibility of families.