title: The Comparison of Relationship Beliefs and Couples Burnout in women who apply for Divorce and Women Who Want to Continue their Marital Life.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to examine the comparison of relationship beliefs and couples burnout in women who apply for divorce and women who want to continue their marital life.
  
  
  METHODS
  for this study, 50 women who referred to judicial centers and 50 women who claimed they wanted to continue their marital life were randomly selected. Participants were asked to complete the relationship beliefs inventory and marital burnout questionnaires. In this study, descriptive statistical methods such as standard deviation, mean, t- students for independent groups, correlation, multi-variable regression and independent group's correlation difference test were used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The comparison between the relationship beliefs of the 2 groups (those wanting to divorce and women wanting to continue their marital life) was significantly different (p<0/1). In addition, the comparison of marital burnout was significantly different in the 2 groups (p<0/1).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Women who were about to divorce were significantly different from those who wanted to continue their marital relationship in the general measure of the relationship beliefs and factors of "believing that disagreement is destructive and their partners can not change their undesirable behaviors". In other words, women who were applying for divorce had more unreasonable thoughts and burnout compared to those who wanted to continue their marital life.
authors.affiliation: University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences.
authors.forename: Anahita Khodabakhshi
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Koolaee
authors.forename: Nastaran
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Adibrad
authors.forename: Bahram Saleh
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Sedgh Poor