The current study aimed to identify emotional divorce and its effect on fear and sadness in children. The sample consisted of 100 families divided into 50 families from a rural environment and (50) families from an urban environment.
The researcher used the comparative descriptive approach and used two scales (the emotional divorce scale for spouses) (the children's fear and sadness scale).
The research reached results, the most important of which is that there is a statistically significant correlation between the total emotional divorce scale and each of (the emotional dimension, parental treatment dimension, the total measure of fear and sadness in children) _ there is a statistically significant correlation between the total emotional divorce scale and each of (The emotional dimension, after the treatment
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Total Scale of Fear and Sadness in Children (I have the urban sample)
There is a statistically significant inverse correlation between the emotional component and the duration of the marriage _there is a statistically significant inverse correlation between the intellectual dimension and each of (husband/wife age, family size), while there is no correlation between the rest of the dimensions of emotional divorce (communication, economic) and demographic variables (Gender - housing - duration of marriage - family size).
There are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the study sample (rural/urban) for the total emotional divorce scale in favor of the urban sample