Identifying and Prioritizing Socio-economic Factors Affecting Divorce in Boroujerd City

Divorce is one of the most important social ills that has grown in most countries in recent decades, including Iran. Considering that Boroujerd city has the first rank of divorce in Lorestan province, this study was conducted with the aim of identifying and prioritizing socio-economic factors affecting the occurrence of divorce in Boroujerd city.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey-descriptive in terms of method. Data collection tool was a valid and reliable researcher-made questionnaire (Pearson correlation coefficient in the retest method 0.77). The statistical population included experts and activists in the field of social injuries and divorce in Boroujerd city, 40 of whom were interviewed and the data were analyzed by SPSS software and Kendall test.

The study showed that the most effective economic factors of divorce, respectively: financial problems, male unemployment, lack of alimony and the most effective social factors of divorce, respectively: drug abuse, the impact of virtual social networks (WhatsApp, Instagram, etc.) and there were no good consultants at the city level. Identifying and ranking the causes of these cases can be effective in understanding, understanding and interpreting the deep layers of this problem and reducing this social scourge.