The Relationship between Cyberspace Use Style with Marital Conflict, Emotional Divorce, and Marital Commitment

This study aimed to identify the relationship between the use style of cyberspace and marital conflicts, emotional divorce, and marital commitment. The research method is descriptive-correlational and the statistical population of the study consisted of all married women (4500 people) of Tabriz Azad University of which according to Morgan table and available sampling method, 380 people were selected. The research instruments included the researcher-made cyberspace use questionnaires, Sanai and Barati's Marital Conflicts (2000), Guttman's Emotional Divorce (2009), and Adams and Jones (1997) Marital Commitment questionnaire. The results illustrated that there is a negative relationship between scientific use of cyberspace, family skills, and business with marital conflicts (P <0.05), but there is a positive relationship between simple communication, fun, and entertainment with marital conflicts (P <0.05). Furthermore, there is a negative relationship between the scientific use of cyberspace, family skills, and business with emotional divorce (P <0.05); however, there is a positive relationship between simple relationship, fun, and entertainment with emotional divorce (P <0.05). Moreover, a positive relationship between scientific use of cyberspace and business with marital commitment (P <0.05) and a negative relationship between simple communication and entertainment with marital commitment (P <0.05) is observable. Finally, there is no relationship between family skill and marital commitment (P> 0.05).