A Comparison Between Personality Traits and Attribution Styles of Normal Couples and Divorce Petitioners

Subject Areas : Educational

behzad behrouz ¹ , Farhnaz Mohammadi ² , shahram alihabadi ³ , Mohammad Bagher Kajbaf ⁴ , Nasrin Haidarizadeh ⁵ , behrouz behrouz ⁶

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Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2014-06-22

Keywords: attribution style, Normalcouplesanddivorce petitioners, Personality traits,

Abstract :

The aim of the present study was to compare personality characteristics and attribution styles of normal couples and those petitioning divorce. The sample size included one hundred of 23-55 year-old men and women (25 normal couples from the employees of Justice Office and 25 divorce petitioners referring to justice Office of Kermanshah in (2010-2011) who were selected by available sampling method. To collect the data the short form of Questionnaire Five Factors of Personality (NEO-FFI) as well as Attribution Style Questionnaire (ASQ) were used. This research is a survey, causal– comparative study By applying the analysis of covariance , it was found that normal couples use stable and specific attribution style and divorce petitioners use general and unstable attribution style. But there is no significant difference between inner-outer attribution styles of the two groups. Also the results showed that there is a negative relationship between neuroticism and marital satisfaction (P < 0.01) and openness (P < 0.03) but agreeableness (P < 0.02) have positive relationships with marital satisfaction. There were significant differences between two groups of normal couples and divorce petitioners regarding the application of attribution styles and personality characteristics (P < 0.01).