Emotional Divorce and Its Relation to Demographic Variables

Al-Moselhy, Mennatullah Muhammad Nasr; Abu Zeid, Ahmed Abd Al-Hady; Mokhaimer, Emad Mohamed Ahmed; Adel, Dina El-Prince

doi:10.21608/jsdses.2023.207300.1017

Emotional Divorce and Its Relation to Demographic Variables

Document Type : scientific research and articles

Authors

¹ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Port Said University, Egypt

² Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Zagazig University, Egypt

10.21608/jsdses.2023.207300.1017

Abstract

The study deals with emotional divorce and the demographic variables associated with it (gender, environment and work), through a comparative descriptive approach on a sample of 150 emotionally divorced husbands and wives in Port Said Governorate, and South Port Said (Bahr Al-Baqar), and their ages range from 30 to 60 years. The researcher relies on the use of the emotional divorce scale for married couples prepared by Ali Shaker Al-Fatlawy and Wafaa Kazem Jabbar (2012), and the emotional divorce reasons scale by Sajida Ibrahim (2019). After verifying the psychometric characteristics (validity and reliability), the researcher reaches several results, including the following: (1) There are no significant differences between the means scores of emotional divorce between spouses according to the gender variable. (2) There are statistically significant differences between the means scores of emotional divorce according to the environment variable (rural-urban) in favor of the urban. (3) There is a statistically significant difference between the means scores of emotional divorce between spouses according to the education variable (educated-illiterate) in favor of the educated (4) There is a statistically significant difference between the means scores of working and non-working wives in emotional divorce in favor of working wives.

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