Demographic Predictions of Couples' Emotional Divorce

Emotional divorce is very common in today's society and leads to negative consequences in the family and society, so the purpose of this study was to investigate the demographic predictions of emotional divorce of couples in Zanjan province.

This research was descriptive-analytical. The study population was all couples in Zanjan province. The sample size based on Free Statistics Calculators Version4 was 423 people. Using random cluster sampling, married people from Zanjan province were randomly selected. The Guttman's emotional divorce and researcher-made demographic questionnaires were randomly assigned to participants. Finally, for the final analysis of the data, 413 descriptive statistics and structural models were performed. In order to study the structural model due to the normality of the data and the acceptability of other prerequisites, as well as the graphical environment and high capability of AMOS software, version 22 of this software package was used.

The results showed that the number of emotional divorces in the range of forty years and above is more than the lower ranges. The rate of emotional divorce was lower among childless and single-parent parents and the highest rate of emotional divorce was high among parents with high children. Higher levels of education were also associated with higher levels of emotional divorce. These results showed that the rate of emotional divorce was higher among married women than married men. About 35% of emotional divorce cases were found in women and about 30% in men.

Emotional divorce is a multi-factor or multi-causal phenomenon, one of which is demographic and demographic issues. One of the demographic factors that were associated with emotional divorce was education, which with the increase in education, the rate of emotional divorce was higher according to descriptive data. On the other hand, emotional divorce was more evident among women with higher numbers of children.