Emotional Divorce and its Relationship with Psychological Hardiness

Ali Saleh  Jarwan; Basem Mohammed   Al-frehat

doi:10.18488/journal.61.2020.81.72.85

Authors

Ali Saleh Jarwan The Dept. of Counseling and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Basem Mohammed Al-frehat Assistant Professor of Psychological Counseling, Department of Educational Science, Ajloun University College of Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2248-1098

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.61.2020.81.72.85

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the impact of emotional divorce and its relationship with psychological hardiness for a sample of married female students at Yarmok University. It also aimed at recognizing the differences between those students impacted by emotional divorce in light of certain factors, namely the duration of marriage, the family's monthly salary and the husband's educational level. The researchers used a questionnaire as the study instrument that consisted of a thirty-item emotional divorce scale and a thirty-one-item psychological hardiness scale. The researchers found that by using the statistical analysis of means and standard deviations, three- way ANOVA analysis, and Pearson Correlation Coefficient, the level of emotional divorce among married female students at Yarmok University was low. Unexpectedly, the level of psychological hardiness among the married female students was high. In addition, the study results showed that there is a negative statistical relationship between emotional divorce and psychological hardiness for married female students at Yarmok University.