Causal Relationships of Personality Factors to Emotional Divorce:The Mediating Role of Couple Burnout
Subject Areas : Woman and family
Mohammadreza Payam
1
(Ph.D. candidate in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran)
Majed Mahmoud Aliluo
2
(Professor, Department of Psychology, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran. m-alilou@tabriz.ac.ir (Corresponding Author))
Marziyeh. Alivandi Vafa.
3
(Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran)
Keywords: Personality factors, emotional divorce, Couple Burnout,
Abstract :
Personality traits are considered as effective factors in the occurrence or persistence of emotional divorce and couple burnout. Therefore, the aim of this study is to model the structural model of emotional divorce based on personality traits mediated by couple burnout. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of research method. The statistical population of this study includes all divorce applicants in Tabriz metropolis. A total of 250 people were selected by purposive sampling method and Guttman's emotional divorce scale, personality factor questionnaire and couple burnout scale were administered to them. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling in SPSS software version 24 and LISREL version 8.80. The results showed that the dimension of extraversion had a significant negative relationship with emotional divorce and the dimension of neuroticism, openness to experience and conscientiousness had a significant positive relationship with emotional divorce, but the dimension of agreeableness had no significant relationship with emotional divorce. On the other hand, the dimension of neuroticism has a significant positive relationship with couple burnout and the dimension of openness to experience and agreeableness with couple burnout has a significant negative relationship, but the dimension of extraversion and conscientiousness has no significant relationship with couple burnout (P <0.01). The results of structural equation model showed that personality traits have an effective role on emotional divorce and couple burnout (P <0.01). The results of the structural equation model showed an acceptable model. Due to the increase in emotional divorce, a program can be developed to help direct or correct pathological personality traits before the formation and stabilization of these traits.
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Abbasi RA, Rasoulzadeh Tabatabaei SK. Marital Satisfaction and Individual Differences: The Role of Personality Factors. International Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 2009 [cited 2022June23];3(3):237-242 [In Persian]
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Gottman JM. The marriage clinic: A scientifically based marital therapy. W W Norton & Co; 1999
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