Investigating the impact of emotional divorce and domestic violence on the tendency to extramarital relationships with the mediating role of psychological distress in married women.
Subject Areas :Azam Mohamadpur-Eyradmosa 1 , maryam aghelmasjedi 2
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2 - Department of Health Psychology, Ra.C., Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.
Keywords: Emotional divorce, domestic violence, extramarital relationships, psychological distress,
Abstract :
The purpose of this research was to determine the impact of emotional divorce and domestic violence on returning to extramarital relationships with the role of psychological distress as a mediator. The present study was applied in terms of its purpose and descriptive in terms of the nature and method of implementation. The statistical population includes all married women who refer to counseling clinics in Tehran (470 people), and the statistical sample of the present study is 200 married women who were selected by sampling method. Multi-stage clustering was determined based on the structural equation modeling methodology of the sample size. Data collection tools include John Guttman's Emotional Divorce Questionnaire (2000), Mark Watley's Infidelity Attitude Questionnaire (2006), and Simmons and Gaher's Psychological Distress Questionnaire (2005). ), the questionnaire for measuring violence against women was Haj Yahya (2001) and in order to analyze the data, inferential statistics methods (structural equation modeling, exploratory factor analysis, Student's t-test) were used appropriately. A significance level of 0.05 was considered. SPSS-20 and AMOS-24 software were used for analysis. The research findings showed that domestic violence has a direct positive effect on psychological distress (T = 3.510, β = 0.221). Also, the research findings showed that emotional divorce, psychological distress, domestic violence and emotional divorce have a direct positive effect. It has a direct positive effect on psychological distress and has a direct positive effect on extramarital relations.