Examining the Causal Relationship Model of Neuroticism with Emotional Divorce Based on the Mediation of Emotional Regulation in Women's Cultural Background

Subject Areas : Psychology

Seyedeh Kosar Majidi ¹ (Master's Degree, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Psychology, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Islamic Azad University, Amol, Iran)
Mahdi Akbari ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral Science, Farhangian University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2024-02-21 Accepted : 2024-04-15 Published : 2024-05-01

Keywords: Neuroticism, Emotional divorce, Emotion regulation, Culture,

Abstract :

The aim of the present study was to examine the causal relationship model between neuroticism and emotional divorce with the mediation of emotional regulation (reappraisal and emotional suppression) in women's cultural background. The statistical population of the research included all the women who referred to counseling and psychology centers in Amol city in the academic year 1402-1401, of which 308 subjects were selected by convenient sampling method. The research method was correlational. To collect data, the Emotional Divorce Questionnaire of Mohammadi and colleagues (2014); The Big Five Personality Factors of Costa and McCarey (1992) and Emotional Regulation Questionnaire of Gross and John (2003) were implemented. Pearson's correlation coefficient and path analysis by AMOS-24 and SPSS-26 software were used to analyze the data. The results showed that neuroticism had a negative direct effect on reappraisal and a positive direct effect on emotional suppression and emotional divorce (P < 0.05). Also, reappraisal had negative effect on emotional divorce and emotional suppression and a positive effect on emotional divorce. The results of path analysis indicated that neuroticism had mediating effect on women's emotional divorce through the mediator variable of reappraisal and emotional suppression. Therefore, neuroticism and emotional regulation were effective on emotional divorce in women.

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