Study on Relationship of Domestic Violence with Emotional Divorce Among the Married Females in Tehran

Emotional divorce has very bad persistent effects on victims, therefore recognizing of risk factors is very important. Domestic violence against women plays an important role in the occurrence of emotional divorce. It seems that one of the main reasons for emotional divorce is domestic violence against women. This study is aimed to investigate the relationship between violence against women with emotional divorce among married women in Tehran.
This study is an analytical-correlation study that studies the relationship between domestic violence against women and emotional divorce. The study population consisted of all married women in Tehran in 2016. Cluster sampling (multi-stage) was used for choosing married women who are living with their husbands. The estimated sample involves 402 persons. To collect data, Guttmann emotional divorce questionnaire (2000) and HAJ YAHYA domestic violence against women questionnaire (1988) were used. Data analysis was done after collecting them by SPSS software version 22 and the use of Pearson, Spearman and logistic regression analysis statistical tests.
Results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between violence against women and emotional divorce; and dimensions of domestic violence against women predict between 40.2 to 53.7 percent of variance changes of emotional divorce. Among the demographic variables, economic and social status had a significant positive correlation with emotional divorce; and there was no significant relationship between age, duration of marriage and number of children with emotional divorce.
Domestic violence against women imposes severe problems to the family. In order to reduce emotional divorce and formal divorce; more attention are needed by women experiencing domestic violence. The results of this study suggest to policy makers and planners who working with families and women to pay attention to the role of domestic violence against women and focus on emotional divorce and use it in their social policy planning and related interventions in the health sector. The formulation of policies and related interventions can also help to reduce the official divorce statistics.