Predicting Women's Emotional Divorce: The Role of Problem Solving Skills and Lifestyles

Abstract

This research was conducted to determine the contribution of problem-solving skills and lifestyles in predicting women's emotional divorce. The current research method was descriptive and correlational, and the statistical population of the research was all married female students of the Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht branch. Among the statistical population, 180 women were selected and studied through available sampling. Gottman's emotional divorce questionnaire (2008), lifestyle questionnaire (LSQ), and Cassidy and Long's (1996) problem-solving styles were used to collect data. After collecting and extracting data, participants' scores were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the dimensions of problem-solving skills and the dimensions of lifestyles with emotional divorce in married students. Also, the results showed that the dimensions of problem-solving skills and the dimensions of lifestyles have the power to predict emotional divorce in married female students significantly. Overall, the results of this research showed that women's lifestyles and problem-solving skills could be important predictors of their divorce probability; Because the ability to solve family problems is one of the factors that moderate the effects of adverse life events, and lifestyle is an important factor that justifies healthy and unhealthy marital functioning and provides a way to respond to the reasons for couples' incompatibility.