The relationship between Emotional Divorce and Motivation for Achievement among Working Women

Abstract

This study aims to determine the relationship between emotional divorce and achievement motivation for working women. It aims to identify the indicators of the role of social workers in dealing with emotional divorce and achievement motivation for working women. We selected a targeted sample of (100) working women.The study concluded that there is an inverse correlation relationship with statistical significance between emotional divorce in its various dimensions (physical, psychological, social, emotional, and professional) and achievement motivation for working women at a significance level (0.01). There is a direct, statistically significant relationship between the variables of age and family income for the working woman and her emotional divorce at a significance level (0.01) There is no statistical indication of the educational status of the working woman, the educational status of the husband, the employment status of the working woman. Key words:(Emotional divorce -Achievement motivation -working woman) IntroductionThe emotional divorce between the spouses is called false social harmony, as the relationship between the partners seems to have prevailed in permanent peace, keeping respect for ach other. However, it is in fact unbearable for the spouses, and this is what happens in developing countries such as Arab societies, where it is difficult to isolate the family from society (Khoury, 2008).Statistics of marriage in Egypt indicate a continuous increase in all governorates. In 2014, it reached (909,350) marriage contracts, while in 2019 it reached (927840) marriage contracts. On the other hand, the rate of divorce in 2014 increased to (2.6) per thousand of the population. Then in 2018 it had a ratio of (2.9) per thousand of the population, and the highest divorce rate is in the age group. (Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics, 2019).The results of Afrasiabi. & Jafarizadeh, (2015) research show that individual factors are not equally effective on an emotional divorce. There is a significant relationship between emotional divorce and these factors: sex, understanding of spouse, using nice words by spouse, spouse expectations, understanding spouse situations and using drugs. However, there is not any significant relation between emotional divorce and these factors: doubt and pessimism, misplaced