Predicting Emotional Divorce Based on Components of sexual Dysfunctional Beliefs in Married Women

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Master of Family Counseling, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Semnan Payame Noor University, Semnan, Iran.

2 Masters student of General Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

3 Master of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

4 Assistant Professor Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Semnan Payame Noor University, Semnan, Iran(Corresponding Author)

Abstract

Introduction: This research, aimed to determine Forecast emotional divorce According to The components of sexual dysfunction beliefs included sexual conservatism, sexual desire as sin, beliefs about age, body image, denial of priority of affection in sex, and the preference of maternal role in married women.
Methods: The research method was correlation and statistical society of married women inSabzevar & Gonabad & Nishabor city in 1396, in which 300 were selected through purposeful sampling. The research tools were Gutman's Divorce Questionnaire and Newborn Dysfunctional Beliefs Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by SPSS-25 software using step-by-step Discriminate analysis method.
Results: Data analysis showed that the linear combination of variable components of dysfunctional beliefs could predict the group's belonging with and without emotional divorce was 73/3 percent of the accuracy in married women. In step-by-step Discriminate analysis, the most efficient variables in predicting group affiliation are, respectively, sexual conservatism, body image beliefs, and age. In the study of variables simultaneously, the above three variables were significant for predicting emotional divorce.
Conclusion: Sexual beliefs play a decisive role in predicting emotional divorce.

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