Predicting Emotional Divorce Based on Communication Beliefs and Ambivalence in Expressing Emotion

Background: The aim of this study was to predict emotional divorce based on communication beliefs and ambivalence in expressing emotion in women referring to psychological clinics in Isfahan in the spring and summer of ۲۰۱۸. Method: For this purpose, ۱۷۹ women were selected by purposive sampling method and completed the questionnaires of ambivalence in expressing emotion, communication beliefs and emotional divorce (۲۰۰۸). Simultaneous regression was used in statistical data analysis. Results: Simultaneous multiple regression analysis showed that there is a significant relationship between the dimensions of communication beliefs and emotional divorce. There is also a significant positive relationship between the dimensions of ambivalence in expressing emotion and emotional divorce. Conclusion: The dimensions of communication beliefs are able to predict emotional divorce; So that the belief in the destructiveness of opposition, the immutability of the spouse and the belief in the expectation of mind reading have the greatest role in predicting emotional divorce and the dimensions of ambivalence in expressing emotion can predict emotional divorce.

Keywords:

Communication Beliefs , Ambivalence in Expressing Emotion , Emotional Divorce.