The moderating role of conflict resolution styles in relation to marital conflicts and emotional divorce

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the moderating role of conflict resolution styles in relation to marital conflicts and emotional divorce. The method of research was correlation and statistical community, including married men and women of Mashhad city in the period from May to July 2019, and 265 people were selected by available sampling method and were asked Gutman's Emotional Divorce Questionnaire (2010), Sanai and Barati's Marital Conflict Scale (1997) and the second version of Rahim's Conflict Resolution Styles Questionnaire (1983). The results of Pearson correlation analysis showed that all components of marital conflict have a positive and significant correlation with emotional divorce and a significant negative correlation with constructive conflict resolution style. Also, there is a significant negative relationship between constructive conflict resolution style and emotional divorce. In addition, based on the results of hierarchical regression, the use of constructive conflict resolution style has a moderating role between marital conflicts and emotional divorce. The results showed that marital conflicts can predict the reduction of emotional divorce by modulating people's use of constructive conflict resolution style. Therefore, people using constructive conflict resolution styles, despite experiencing marital conflicts, are less likely to experience coldness in the relationship and emotional divorce.