Clinical Psychology Achievements

The role of parents' emotional divorce in predicting children's behavioral disorders, anxiety and academic burnout

https://doi.org/10.22055/jacp.2025.47937.1414
Volume 11, Issue 1
February 2025
Pages 24-35
Clinical Psychology Achievements

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Fatemeh Tavakoli pour 1
Fariba Tabe bordbar 2

1 payamnoor iran master degree

2 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract
Abstract
The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of parents' emotional divorce in predicting children's behavioral disorders, anxiety and academic burnout. The research project is a correlation type and a statistical community, including all the students of the second secondary level of Girls schools in the 4th district of Shiraz, who were studying in the academic year of 1400-1401. The research population includes 13,200 people and the research sample, according to Morgan's table, includes 375 people who were selected by the cluster sampling method from two secondary schools for girls in the 4th district of Shiraz city. Research measurement tools include Guttman Emotional Divorce Questionnaire (2008), Covey and Patterson Behavioral Problems Questionnaire (1987), Beck Anxiety Scale Questionnaire (1988) and the Academic Burnout Questionnaire of Bresso, Salanova and Scheffley Questionnaire (1997). In order to analyze the data, two methods of inferential statistics and descriptive statistics were used, the descriptive part including the mean and standard deviation, and the Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression were used in the inferential part. The results of simultaneous multiple regression showed that parents' emotional divorce was able to positively and significantly predict children's behavior disorder. Also, parents' emotional divorce was able to positively and significantly predict anxiety, and finally, parents' emotional divorce was able to positively and significantly predict academic burnout.

Keywords

emotional divorce of parents
behavioral disorders
anxiety
academic burnout
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