Effect of Psychological Disorders, Extramarital Relationship, Job Satisfaction and Personality Traits on Emotional Divorce among Male and Female Physicians in Zanjan

Background: a woman and even a man refuse legal separation due to its consequences, but they adopt a psychological mechanism called emotional divorce in living together.objective: the present study aimed to investigate the effect of psychological disorders, explanatory components of extramarital affairs, job satisfaction, and personality traits on emotional divorce in male and female physicians.method: the research method was descriptive-correlational. the research sample included 200 married physicians (male and female) aged 30 to 45 years living in zanjan. data were collected by scl25 questionnaire (short form of scl90 questionnaire), glass’s inter-relationship justification questionnaire, job satisfaction questionnaire, emotional divorce questionnaire, and neo-ffi questionnaire. data were analyzed using kolmogorov-smirnov, pearson correlation, and multivariate regression.results: based on the findings, it can be stated that psychological disorders, explanatory components of extramarital affairs, job satisfaction, and personality traits directly or indirectly affect the rate of emotional divorce.conclusion: it is suggested that future researchers use implicit measurement models to assess extramarital affairs and emotional divorce due to the sensitivity of measuring these variables to counteract the limitations of the validity of the findings.