Modeling the structural equations of marital boredom in women seeking divorce based on initial incompatible schemas, marital expectations, and emotional information processing with the mediating role of sexual self-concept

moradi, abolfazl; azadi, mehran; mosazadeh, zohreh

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Modeling the structural equations of marital boredom in women seeking divorce based on initial incompatible schemas, marital expectations, and emotional information processing with the mediating role of sexual self-concept

Abolfazl Moradi

, Mehran Azadi

¹, Zohreh Mosazadeh

1- , mehran.azadi@gmail.com

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The present research aimed to model the structural equations of marital burnout based on early maladaptive schemas, marital expectations, and emotional information processing, with the mediating role of sexual self-concept in women seeking divorce in Shiraz. The present research was a correlational descriptive study of the structural equation modeling type. The statistical population of this research consisted of all women seeking divorce who were referred to family courts in the year 1402. From the statistical population, 320 individuals were selected using a multi-stage random sampling method. The research tools included the Pines Marital Burnout Questionnaire (1996), the Young Schema Questionnaire (2003), the Hope and Colleagues Marital Expectations Questionnaire (1389), the Baker Emotional Information Processing Questionnaire (2007), and the Snell Sexual Self-Concept Questionnaire (1995). The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results obtained from the direct relationships of the research variables indicated that there is a positive and significant relationship between early maladaptive schemas, marital expectations, and emotional information processing with marital burnout. Additionally, early maladaptive schemas, marital expectations, and emotional information processing have a positive and significant indirect effect on marital burnout through sexual self-concept. Based on the findings of the research, it can be concluded that sexual self-concept, as a mediating variable, was able to explain the relationship between early maladaptive schemas, marital expectations, and emotional information processing.

Article number: 3

Keywords: Marital burnout, early maladaptive schemas, marital expectations, emotional information processing, sexual self-concept, divorce.