Background and aims: Marital conflicts and subsequent divorce occur due to various factors that one of them is psychological factors. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the role of cognitive failure and alexithymia in marital conflicts of women exposed to divorce.
Methods: The current research is a correlation study. 100 women of applying divorce in Shiraz city were selected by convenience sampling and responded to the cognitive failure, alexithymia scale and marital conflict questionnaire. In analyzing the data, stepwise regression analysis was used.
Results: The results showed that predictor variables could predict in positive and significant manner marital conflicts of women who exposed for divorce. In the first stage, alexithymia could explain about 23% of the variance of marital conflict and in the next stage, the predicted amount with adding cognitive failure increased to 32 percent (P<0.01).
Conclusion: Cognitive failure and alexithymia could be one of the reasons of marital conflicts in women exposed for divorce. So, training skills like these is essential for marriage.