Factors Affecting Emotional Divorce of Spouses in Kashan

Emotional divorce is an important issue that has been considered by social scientists in recent years. The present study investigated  the factors affecting the emotional divorce of spouses in Kashan city. In this research, the theories of Winch, Hill, Bowerman, Sternberg, Marquez and Chalabi have been used. The research method in this research was survey and the research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population of the study included  couples in Kashan city and a questionnaire was distributed among 330 of them. The validity of the research was confirmed by the agreement of experts in the field of social sciences and the reliability of the concepts in the research based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 859%. The findings of the present study show that the rate of emotional divorce in the range of 1-5 is 1.93, which indicates a favorable situation. The results of the correlation test show that there is a significant relationship between life satisfaction, religiosity, expectations of the role of spouse, mutual respect between spouses, social support, premarital knowledge, violence in marital life and trust in the spouse with emotional divorce . Also, based on regression analysis, among the variables included in the equation, the variables of trust in spouse, religiosity, life satisfaction and support from the spouse have been reported as the most influential variables on emotional divorce.