In this paper, we have
proposed a mechanism for predicting divorce and utilized the established
way to evaluating the scale named Divorce Predictors Scale (DPS). The
DPS, which is based on Gottman couple's therapy, consists 54 items
self-report questionaries, which could be utilized as features or
attributes in a machine learning model. Besides “Divorce Predictors
Scale” another form was used that is “personal information form” to
collect personal information of participants for a more conventional and
disciplined way to conduct this research. Among 200 participants
(N=200), 126 (63%) were married and 74 (37%) were divorced. To
investigate the success of the Divorce Predictors Scale, Multilayer
Perceptron (MLP), Naïve Bayes (NB) and Random Forest (RF) algorithms
were used. Using the feature selection approach, we tried to narrow down
the significant or most important features based on the
correlation-based feature selection. Hence, found 6 features/items
influencing the divorce prediction in the context of Bangladeshi data.
During applying different algorithms directly on the divorce prediction
dataset, the highest prediction accuracy rate was 87.14% with Naïve
Bayes algorithm. But after applying feature selection criteria, using
the selected features the highest prediction accuracy obtained 84.29%
with the Multilayer Perceptron. As indicated by the outcomes, DPS can
predict divorce. Family advocates and family specialists can utilize
this scale for adding to the arrangement of case definition and
mediation plans. Moreover, the analysis could be stated that the
affirmation of the Gottman couple's treatment in the Bangladeshi sample
are confirmed.