الاحتراق الزواجي وتنظيم العواطف بين النساء الأردنيات العاملات المتزوجات: دراسة سوسيولوجية

Linda A.H. Tahat; Rula Odeh Alsawalqa

doi:10.35516/Hum.2025.8760

Authors

Linda A.H. Tahat Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9258-2790
Rula Odeh Alsawalqa Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5605-5444

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/Hum.2025.8760

Keywords:

Marital Burnout, Emotion Regulation, MBI, Sociology of Emotions, Jordan.

Abstract

Objectives: This study aims to explore the levels of marital burnout and emotion regulation among married working women in Amman, Jordan, and to reveal the relationship between marital burnout and emotion regulation, with some sociodemographic variables.

Methods: A social survey was conducted, using an accessible sample of (485) participants aged between 25–40 or more, with a marital relationship of 1 to 15 years or more.

Results: The results revealed moderate levels of marital burnout, except in the domain of "emotional exhaustion", which recorded high levels. The sampled women reported high levels of emotion regulation, demonstrating that the higher the emotion regulation level among them, the lower the level of marital burnout. Moreover, the levels of marital burnout and emotion regulation were not affected by the variables of marriage duration, husband’s age, wife’s age, educational level of either spouse, family’s monthly income, or the number of children.

Conclusions: Emotion regulation is a crucial component of successful interpersonal relationships and plays an effective role in reducing marital burnout through cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. The results confirm that using the term "marital burnout" to describe the state of detachment and emotional frigidity between spouses, the extent of emotional safety of either spouse, and the individual emotional closure of the marital cycle, is more scientifically accurate in terms of understanding so-called emotional or silent divorce or emotional detachment.

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