Investigating the Role of Parental Discipline and Schematic Vulnerable Child Mentions in Married Students' Emotional Divorce: The Modifying Role of Coping Styles

Today, in many societies, we see emotional divorce and formal divorce, which can cause negative physical and psychological effects on couples, their children or even society. In this regard, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of punitive parent and vulnerable child schemas in emotional divorce among students of Qom Azad University in the academic year 1399-1400. The sample size was 298 people by available sampling method. The instruments used were the Guttman Emotional Divorce Questionnaire and the Andler and Parker Stress Scale. Data were collected and analyzed using hierarchical regression method in SPSS software.Results and The results showed that the mentality of the punishing parent has a positive and significant relationship with the emotion-oriented coping style. Also, this mentality has a negative and significant relationship with the problem-oriented coping style. The mentality of the punishing parent has a positive and significant relationship with the avoidant coping style; This mentality also has a positive and significant direct relationship with emotional divorce. Vulnerable child mentality has a positive and significant relationship with emotion-oriented coping style. Vulnerable child mentality has a negative and significant relationship with problem-oriented coping style. Vulnerable child mentality has a positive and significant relationship with avoidant coping style; Vulnerable child mentality also has a direct and positive relationship with emotional divorce.