Marriage Intentions, Attitudes, and Marriage Barriers in Students

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Professor, Department of Counselling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran. (Corresponding Author)

2 M.A. in Counseling, Department of Counseling, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz,Iran.

3 Professor, Department of Counselling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction: This study was conducted aimed to investigate the intentions, attitudes, and marriage barriers in students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz.
Methods: The present study is a descriptive-survey study. In this study, six faculties selecte from among the faculties of the university and with referring to the educational departements, three hundred male and female students from among the seventh and eighth semester undergraduate and postgraduate students were selected using a multi-stage cluster random sampling method based on the study''s entry criteria, and the subjects responded to a researcher-made questionnaire that was developed according to intentions, attitudes, and marriage obstacles (Rajabi & Asadpour, 2014). In this study to answer the research questions of descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentage frequency and inferential statistics such as multivariate analysis of variance using SPSS-23 statistical software program were used.
Results: The findings indicated that 88 (29.5%) female subjects and 82 (27.6%) male subjects agreed that they could continue their lives without getting married, and comparative findings showed that female and male subjects differed from each other in some items of the questionnaire, such as a woman can have a full life without marriage and similar.
Conclusion: Therefore, based on the obtained findings, it can be stated that attitudes toward marriage in single people play an important role in shaping the tendency to marry.

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Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences
Volume 68, Issue 2
January and February 2025
Pages 590-680

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