The impact strength of character the emotional divorce with emphasis on the role of mediator marital conflict

mozhgan alishiri¹

1) Iran, Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch, Psychology Email:

IOI Code : XYAF-ZCKZB
Publication : 3rd International Conference on Humanities, Psychologies and Social Science(3hpsconf.com)
Abstract :
    This study was conducted to investigate the factor structure of strong character and its relationship with emotional divorce and marital conflict among women. The research method was correlation design That Statistical population comprised of mothers had no formal job and has at least one child in the school year 93-94 students in Tehran that the number of 400 mothers among the schools in Tehran were selected by convenience sampling. Was used to collect data from a questionnaire developed by the strength of character and virtues of Peterson and Seligman (2004), marital conflict MCQ (1996) and emotional divorce of John Gottman (2001). The results of the structural model and path analysis using software SMART.PLS3 showed that the structural model of the relationship between the components of a strong character, emotional divorce and marital conflict is a good fit (t>% 95 and R2 =0.33). Also Strength of character has a significant negative impact on marital conflict and emotional divorce. And almost half of the effects of strong character (VAF=43%) on the emotional divorce by an indirect path with marital conflict mediator is explained. Measurement model fitting for the structural strength of character with calculate the convergent validity (AVE> 0.5) was approved.

Keywords : strength of character emotional divorce marital conflicts