Causal explanation of emotional divorce of married women: the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and marital burnout

Abstract

This research was conducted to explain the cause of emotional divorce of married women based on the cognitive regulation strategies of emotions and marital burnout. The present study was descriptive-correlation of exploratory type-sequential and guided. The statistical population was 1854 married women who were referred to health homes in Tehran in 2019, and 375 women were selected by multi-stage random sampling method based on sample power software. The research tools were Gutman's emotional divorce questionnaire (2008), Garnefski et al.'s cognitive emotion regulation strategies (2001), and Pines' marital burnout (1966), which were implemented on the target sample. In order to analyze the data, in addition to descriptive statistics, the statistical method of structural equations of smartpls was used. The standard coefficients of direct path analysis results have shown a significant relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies (β=0.694) and emotional divorce. Also, the results of the standard coefficients of the indirect path have shown a positive relationship between marital burnout (β=0.694) with the mediation of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and the emotional divorce of married women. Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that the cognitive regulation of emotion is mediating in the relationship between marital burnout and emotional divorce.