{"id":206423,"date":"2025-02-14T04:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/divorce-can-be-predicted-by-interactions-between-cultural-and-personal-values-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-02-14T04:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:17:23","slug":"divorce-can-be-predicted-by-interactions-between-cultural-and-personal-values-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/divorce-can-be-predicted-by-interactions-between-cultural-and-personal-values-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Divorce can be predicted by interactions between cultural and personal values, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/divorce-can-be-predicted-by-interactions-between-cultural-and-personal-values-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Divorce, the legal dissolution of marriage, can be driven by a variety of factors, ranging from changes in the economic status or health conditions of spouses to contrasting values. The end of a marriage can often be challenging to process. Thus, it can have adverse effects on the well-being and mental health of ex-spouses.<\/p>\n<p>On average, the rates of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/divorce\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">divorce<\/a> worldwide have increased over the past century. Improved understanding of the primary factors that prompt people to dissolve a marriage could help to devise more effective couples and marriage counseling strategies, potentially contributing to a reduction in divorce rates.<\/p>\n<p>Sari Mentser and Lilach Sagiv, two researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, recently carried out a study specifically exploring the relationship between people\u2019s values and divorce. Their findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44271-025-00185-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Communications Psychology<\/i>, suggest that interaction between spouses\u2019 cultural and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/personal+values\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">personal values<\/a> can predict divorce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divorce, the legal dissolution of marriage, can be driven by a variety of factors, ranging from changes in the economic status or health conditions of spouses to contrasting values. The end of a marriage can often be challenging to process. Thus, it can have adverse effects on the well-being and mental health of ex-spouses. On [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,1496,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-law","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}