A Sociological Study of the Relationship between Different Types of Capitals and Women’s Tendency to Divorce in Hamedan City

The present survey research is a sociological study of the relationship between different types of capitals and the rate of women’s tendency to divorce.

The statistical population consists of married women aged 15-54 in Hamedan. The sample size was calculated using Cochran formula on 300 individuals and stratified sampling method was used to select the samples. The theoretical data was collected from books and articles and the practical data was collected using a researcher-made questionnaire. Face validity and Cronbach's alpha were used to assess the validity and reliability of the questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software in two parts: descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The independent variables of the study included six variables of social capital, economic capital, embodied cultural capital, objective cultural capital, institutional cultural capital and women's erotic capital. In addition, the dependent variable of the research was the rate of women’s tendency to divorce.

The results of Pearson correlation coefficients showed that there is a significant negative relationship between the six independent variables of research and the rate of women's tendency to divorce.

The results of stepwise multivariate regression test showed that three variables of erotic capital, social capital and embodied cultural capital predicted and estimated 0.51% of the variance of the dependent variable (married women’s tendency to divorce).