Identification of the Causes of Family Disintegration due to  the Premarital Psycho-social Charateristics of  Men and Women

Banijamli, S.; Nafisi, G.; Yazdi, S.

Identification of the Causes of Family Disintegration due to the Premarital Psycho-social Charateristics of Men and Women

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

S. Banijamli ¹

G. Nafisi ²

S. Yazdi ¹

¹ Member of the Faculty of Al-Zahra University, Faculty of Education, Psychology and Psychology, Tehran, Iran

² Member of the faculty of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology

Abstract

The present research was performed to probe into the disintegration of families due to the prenuptial period characteristics, courting and the compatibility of the spouses’ personal, family, social, cultural and personality characteristics. The research is taking a step toward preventing the disintegration of families via recognizing the above-mentioned factors so that by means of questionnaires the youth could get better acquainted with one another’s characteristics in order to enjoy a steady and prosperous life later. The research was conducted in two stages with a sample of 40 subjects at the introductory and a sample of 200 subjects at the main stage. The recent sample comprised of 50 unsuccessful families (50 couples) and 50 successful families (50 couples) chosen randomly. Aided by family courtrooms, unsuccessful families were selected as the experimental group, and parallel to it, successful families as the control group. Assessment tools were adopted from the Guilford- Zimmerman Temperament Survey as well as the Comprehensive Individual- Social Questionnaires. The major results are as follows: 1) Marrying at a young age, economic, social and cultural poverty, little schooling, having inferior jobs, others’ unjustified interferences, divorce of unsuccessful parents and the economic dependence of the couples on parents have all been factors threatening the young couples’ married life, 2) Lack of similar attitudes and opinions between the spouses brought up differences, 3) Similiarity of attitudes and opinions was recognized as the factor perpetuating married life, 4) Physical, mental and conduct disorders not revealed by the spouses or their families to in weak relations, and 5) Courting and getting to know each other’s characteristics before marriage was considered as the factor perpetuating married life.

Keywords

marriage

family

divorce

marital adjustment

premarital characteristics

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