The mediating role of mental health in the relationship between mental fatigue and self-deception with the tendency to divorce

The purpose of the present study was to determine the mediating role of mental health in the relationship between mental fatigue and self-deception with the tendency to divorce. The method of descriptive-correlation research was Structural equation modeling. The statistical population included all the married students of Kerman City in the academic year 2019-2020, of which 300 people were selected by available and voluntary sampling. The research tools include the Tendency to Divorce Scale (TDS) by Roselet et al. (1986), the Marital Boredom Scale (CBM) by Paynes (1996), the Mental Health Scale (MHI-28) by Besharat (2008), and the Self-Deception Scale (SDQ-12) by Siront and colleagues (2019). Pearson's correlation test and Structural equation modeling were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the model has a good fit and there is a significant relationship between self-deception, mental fatigue, and mental health with the tendency to divorce (P<0/05) and it was also found that mental fatigue and self-deception mediate the indirect effect of mental health. It has a negative and significant effect (P<0/01) on the tendency to divorce married students. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that self-deception and mental fatigue, directly and indirectly, affect the tendency to divorce in married students and play an essential role in the tendency to divorce.