PREDICTION OF THE EMOTIONAL DIVORCE ACCORDING TO SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING AND SOCIAL SKILLS IN THE COUPLES

Emotional divorce is one of the most important problems in life and an effective factor in the breakdown of the structure of the most fundamental part of society, namely the family. Due to the importance and position of the family system and its functions in the individual and social life of humans, it is very important to examine the affecting factors on it. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate and predict the emotional divorce based on the variables of social skills and spiritual well-being of couples using the Metuchen social skills questionnaire (1983), Gatman's emotional divorce (1995), and spiritual well-being, Paloutzian and Ellison (1982) among 156 couples (312 males and females) by available sampling method. For data analysis, Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression were used. At the end, the results of multiple regression analysis showed that considering the amount of significant level (Sig = 0,000), the spiritual well-being and social skills with 95% confidence can predict the divorce of the couple. The results also showed that there is a significant negative relationship between emotional divorce and spiritual well-being in couples. Similarly, there is a significant negative relationship between emotional divorce and couples' well-being. In addition, there was a significant relationship between age difference of couples, number of children, level of education of couples with emotional divorce at 95% level, but there was no significant statistical relationship between marriage and emotional divorce. In general, a variety of factors affective on the quality of marital life and decrease or increase the phenomenon of emotional divorce. According to the results, it can be stated that spiritual well-being and social skills play an important role in the prediction of emotional divorce. Key words: emotional divorce, social skills. Spiritual well-being, Religious welfare