Comparison of expression styles, conflict resolution and attachment in normal married women with emotional divorce experience

Subject Areas : Psychology

roghayeh zarei ¹ , Abolghasem Mehrinejed ²

1 - Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2022-04-26 Accepted : 2022-08-17 Published : 2022-07-23

Keywords: attachment, emotional divorce, conflict resolution styles, assertive styles,

Abstract :

The aim of this research is to identify and compare the assertive styles, conflict resolution and attachment styles in women with experience of emotional divorce and common women (without emotional divorce experience). The research is a causal-comparative study. The statistical population of this research were the married women with at least five years of marriage who had a recourse in Sarahaye Mahale in Tehran in 1395.They were selected with randomly cluster sampling method. Participants in this research answered Guttmann emotional diverse test, Gabriele and Richie assertive style test and test of Rahim (ROCI-II) and scale of close relationship experience (ECR-R). For hypothesis test, analyze variation test with multiple variables and T-test, were done for testing research hypothesizes.Results showed that the women with emotional divorce experience had les assertiveness, also they had avoidance, dominant conflict resolution, avoidance attachment styles. While common women had more assertiveness, with integrating and compromise style conflict resolution. They had also anxiety attachment style.