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Saadat, Fallah M H, Vaziri Yazdi S. Examination of Cultural Components of Spouse Selection Based on Iranian Culture: A Qualitative Study. TB 2023; 22 (3) :33-49
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Examination of Cultural Components of Spouse Selection Based on Iranian Culture: A Qualitative Study
Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University , Fallahyazd@iauyazd.ac.ir
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Examination of Cultural Components of Spouse Selection Based on Iranian Culture: A Qualitative Study
Amin Saadat (Ph.D.)1, Mohammad Hosein Fallah (Ph.D.)2, Saeid Vaziri Yazdi (Ph.D.)3
1. Ph.D. Student of Counseling, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran
2.Corresponding author: Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran
Email: Fallahyazd@iauyazd.ac.ir Phone: 035-31871000
3.Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.
Abstract
Introduction: Among the ways to improve the culture and values of Islamic society in Iran is identifying and introducing important components of spouse selection. Understanding these components can lead to the selection of a suitable spouse and prevent common mistakes in this area. Therefore, the present study aims to examine educational components of spouse selection in Iranian society.
Methods: This qualitative study had an exploratory-descriptive nature and used the grounded theory and systematic Strauss and Corbin methods simultaneously to collect, execute, and analyze data. The research population included all family counselors, faculty members, and managers of counseling centers involved in marriage education and counseling in Yazd in 2022. Therefore, 32 participants were selected using purposive sampling as the research sample. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews which were recorded.
Results: The results of open coding showed that out of 254 extracted propositions, 27 concepts were obtained in the form of 11 categories. Through axial coding, 5 main components (awareness of the philosophy of marriage, smart selection, literacy about marriage, rational-emotional strategies, and valuable style of marriage) were identified by integrating and connecting the categories. Selective coding also presented its final theory by designing a paradigmatic framework in a diagrammatic form.
Conclusion: Identifying dimensions and components of spouse selection can facilitate the assessment and evaluation of young individuals on the brink of marriage by pre-marital counselors and couple therapists. This will help the young people make vital and important decisions in choosing a life partner.
Keywords: Spouse Selection, Culture, Marriage, Grounded Theory
References
1-Lamanna MA, Riedmann A, Stewart SD. Marriages, families, and relationships: Making choices in a diverse society. Masachoset: Cengage Learning; 2020.76-198.
2-Olcay Imamoğlu E, Ads M, Weisfeld CC. What is the impact of choosing one’s spouse on marital satisfaction of wives and husbands? The case of arranged and self-choice Turkish marriages. Journal of Family Issues. 2019;40(10):1270-98.
3-Rezaei M, Asadpour I, Mohsenzade F, Zahrakar K. Research Paper Identifying pre_remarriage educational needs: A grounded theory study. Psychological Science. 2022;21(113):884-67. [Persian]
4-Cherlin AJ. Goode's world revolution and family patterns: A reconsideration at fifty years. Population and Development Review. 2012;38(4):577-607.
5-Jones GW. Changing marriage patterns in Asia. Routledge handbook of Asian demography: Taylor & Francis: Routledge; 2017. 351-69.
6-Jones GW, Yeung W-JJ. Marriage in Asia. Sage Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA; 2014. 1567-83.
7-Yeung W-JJ, Mu Z. Migration and marriage in Asian contexts. Taylor & Francis; 2020. p. 2863-79.
8-Banijamali SM, Sadeghi-Fasaee S. Young People and Barriers to Marriage. Journal of Strategic Studies on Youth and Sports. 2021;20(51):9-34. [Persian]
9-Valentine KA, Li NP, Meltzer AL, Tsai M-H. Mate preferences for warmth-trustworthiness predict romantic attraction in the early stages of mate selection and satisfaction in ongoing relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2020;46(2):298-311.
10-Kearney MS, Wilson R. Male earnings, marriageable men, and nonmarital fertility: Evidence from the fracking boom. Review of Economics and Statistics. 2018;100(4):678-90.
11-Schultz WM, Hayek SS, Samman Tahhan A, Ko YA, Sandesara P, Awad M, et al. Marital status and outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2017;6(12):e005890.
12-Anik AI, Islam MR, Rahman MS. Association between socioeconomic factors and unmet need for modern contraception among the young married women: A comparative study across the low-and lower-middle-income countries of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. PLOS Global Public Health. 2022;2(7):e0000731.
13-Hoesni S, Hashim I, Ab-Rahman Z. A Preliminary Study: What Is Love in a Marriage? Asian Social Science. 2012;8(9):57. [Persian]
14-Chen C, editor Picking and choosing: The simulation of sequential mate selection process. Population Association of American 2006 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California; 2005. 31-168.
15-Kanani MA, Hamidifar M, Mohammaqdzade H. Mate selection and its criteria: A study among married men and women in Rasht City. Biquarterly journal entitled Sociology of Social Institutions. 2016;3(8):229-56. [Persian]
16-Etemadifard SM. Iranians' Attitudes about the Ideal Spouse: Preferences for Spouse Selecting and Transformations in Recent Decades. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities. 2018;6(2):1-20. [Persian]
17-Pirhayati Z, Gholmali Lavasani M, Hajhosseini M, Keshavarz Afshar H, Zandifar A. Underlying values of spouse selection: A Grounded Theory study. Rooyesh-e-Ravanshenasi Journal (RRJ). 2021;10(9):149-60.
18-Pasandideh A. Marital Satisfaction. Qom: Darol-Hadith Scientific and Cultural Institute; 2011. 1-8. [Persian]
19-Atari M. Assessment of long-term mate preferences in Iran. Evolutionary Psychology. 2017;15(2):1-17. [Persian]
20-Niyazi M, Miri S, Farhadian A. Development of a Model for Spouse Selection Criteria in Iran. The Women and Families Cultural-Educational. 2019;14(48):121-44. [Persian]
21-Salehi-Mobarakeh S, Fallah MH, Vaziri-Yazdi S, Chabokinejad Z. Designing a Pre-Marriage Consultation According to the Lived Experiences of the Women with Unsuccessful Choice: Evaluating Its Efficacy on Criteria for Choosing a Spouse of Female Students. Medical Journal of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. 2022;64(6):4408-20. [Persian]
22-Liu Y, Ge T, Jiang Q. Changing family relationships and mental health of Chinese adolescents: the role of living arrangements. Public Health. 2020;186:110-5.
23-Eastwick PW, Finkel EJ. Sex differences in mate preferences revisited: Do people know what they initially desire in a romantic partner? Journal of personality and social psychology. 2008;94(2):245.
24-Altuntaş S, Atli A. The development of choosing partner strategies inventory. Mustafa Kemal University Journal of Social Sciences Institute. 2015;12(32):123-35.
25-Keldal G, Atli A. Predictors of Turkish University students’ marital attitudes. Current Psychology. 2020;39(4):1354-61.
26-Keldal G. The relationships between personality traits and mate selection strategies of Turkish young adults. Current Psychology. 2020:1-6.
27-Tsoukas A, March E. Predicting short-and long-term mating orientations: the role of sex and the dark tetrad. The Journal of Sex Research. 2018;55(9):1206-18.
28- Haratiyan AA, Mousavi MS, Ershad-Hoseini H, Janbozorg A. Designing and Constructing the Scale of Mate Selection Criteria: Before and After Marriage (SMSC). Cultural Psychology. 2021;4(2):19-40. [Persian]
29- Samania S. Family process and content model: A contextual model for family studies. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2011;30:2285-92. [Persian]
30-Atar S, Ghaderi Z. The relationship between spouse selection criteria and marital satisfaction and quality of life in married women in Shiraz. National Conference on Social and Psychological Disorders; Firozabad. 2018. [Persian]
31-Andrew DP, Pedersen PM, McEvoy CD. Research methods and design in sport management. Human Kinetics; 2019. 12-174.
32-Mousavi CKK, Hakkak M, Sepahvand R, Nazarpouri AH. Designing a Model of Global Talent Management in Sports Organizations based on Human Capital Development Journal of Human Resource Management in Sport. 2020;7(1):205-25. [Persian]
33-Kim JE. Changes in strauss & Corbin's Grounded theory. Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing. 2019;49(5):505-14.
34-Shamaei M, Esmaeili MR. Paradigmatic model of Jihadi management using Grounded data theory. Public Administration Perspective. 2014;19(3):119-50. [Persian]
35-Rezaei S. Designing a Revenue Model for Iranian Football Clubs: With Grounded Theory Approach. Applied Research of Sport Management. 2018;6(3):101-16. [Persian]
36-Isanejad O, Hoshmand S. Mate selection criteria for short-term and long-term relationships: the role of gender and previous relationships with the opposite sex. Strategic Research on Social Problems in Iran University of Isfahan. 2020;9(2):31-54. [Persian]
37-Jebraeili H, Zadeh Mohammadi A, Heidari M. Gender Differences in Mate Selection Criteria. Journal of Family Research. 2013;9(2):155-71. [Persian]
38-Mosallaeinejad L, Kargar MH. Examining the criteria of choosing a spouse from the point of view of two groups of male and female students of Jahrom Univesity of Medical Sciences. Teb va Tazkyeh. 2007;15(2):32-7. [Persian]
Amin Saadat (Ph.D.)1, Mohammad Hosein Fallah (Ph.D.)2, Saeid Vaziri Yazdi (Ph.D.)3
1. Ph.D. Student of Counseling, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran
2.Corresponding author: Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran
Email: Fallahyazd@iauyazd.ac.ir Phone: 035-31871000
3.Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.
Abstract
Introduction: Among the ways to improve the culture and values of Islamic society in Iran is identifying and introducing important components of spouse selection. Understanding these components can lead to the selection of a suitable spouse and prevent common mistakes in this area. Therefore, the present study aims to examine educational components of spouse selection in Iranian society.
Methods: This qualitative study had an exploratory-descriptive nature and used the grounded theory and systematic Strauss and Corbin methods simultaneously to collect, execute, and analyze data. The research population included all family counselors, faculty members, and managers of counseling centers involved in marriage education and counseling in Yazd in 2022. Therefore, 32 participants were selected using purposive sampling as the research sample. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews which were recorded.
Results: The results of open coding showed that out of 254 extracted propositions, 27 concepts were obtained in the form of 11 categories. Through axial coding, 5 main components (awareness of the philosophy of marriage, smart selection, literacy about marriage, rational-emotional strategies, and valuable style of marriage) were identified by integrating and connecting the categories. Selective coding also presented its final theory by designing a paradigmatic framework in a diagrammatic form.
Conclusion: Identifying dimensions and components of spouse selection can facilitate the assessment and evaluation of young individuals on the brink of marriage by pre-marital counselors and couple therapists. This will help the young people make vital and important decisions in choosing a life partner.
Keywords: Spouse Selection, Culture, Marriage, Grounded Theory
References
1-Lamanna MA, Riedmann A, Stewart SD. Marriages, families, and relationships: Making choices in a diverse society. Masachoset: Cengage Learning; 2020.76-198.
2-Olcay Imamoğlu E, Ads M, Weisfeld CC. What is the impact of choosing one’s spouse on marital satisfaction of wives and husbands? The case of arranged and self-choice Turkish marriages. Journal of Family Issues. 2019;40(10):1270-98.
3-Rezaei M, Asadpour I, Mohsenzade F, Zahrakar K. Research Paper Identifying pre_remarriage educational needs: A grounded theory study. Psychological Science. 2022;21(113):884-67. [Persian]
4-Cherlin AJ. Goode's world revolution and family patterns: A reconsideration at fifty years. Population and Development Review. 2012;38(4):577-607.
5-Jones GW. Changing marriage patterns in Asia. Routledge handbook of Asian demography: Taylor & Francis: Routledge; 2017. 351-69.
6-Jones GW, Yeung W-JJ. Marriage in Asia. Sage Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA; 2014. 1567-83.
7-Yeung W-JJ, Mu Z. Migration and marriage in Asian contexts. Taylor & Francis; 2020. p. 2863-79.
8-Banijamali SM, Sadeghi-Fasaee S. Young People and Barriers to Marriage. Journal of Strategic Studies on Youth and Sports. 2021;20(51):9-34. [Persian]
9-Valentine KA, Li NP, Meltzer AL, Tsai M-H. Mate preferences for warmth-trustworthiness predict romantic attraction in the early stages of mate selection and satisfaction in ongoing relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2020;46(2):298-311.
10-Kearney MS, Wilson R. Male earnings, marriageable men, and nonmarital fertility: Evidence from the fracking boom. Review of Economics and Statistics. 2018;100(4):678-90.
11-Schultz WM, Hayek SS, Samman Tahhan A, Ko YA, Sandesara P, Awad M, et al. Marital status and outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2017;6(12):e005890.
12-Anik AI, Islam MR, Rahman MS. Association between socioeconomic factors and unmet need for modern contraception among the young married women: A comparative study across the low-and lower-middle-income countries of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. PLOS Global Public Health. 2022;2(7):e0000731.
13-Hoesni S, Hashim I, Ab-Rahman Z. A Preliminary Study: What Is Love in a Marriage? Asian Social Science. 2012;8(9):57. [Persian]
14-Chen C, editor Picking and choosing: The simulation of sequential mate selection process. Population Association of American 2006 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California; 2005. 31-168.
15-Kanani MA, Hamidifar M, Mohammaqdzade H. Mate selection and its criteria: A study among married men and women in Rasht City. Biquarterly journal entitled Sociology of Social Institutions. 2016;3(8):229-56. [Persian]
16-Etemadifard SM. Iranians' Attitudes about the Ideal Spouse: Preferences for Spouse Selecting and Transformations in Recent Decades. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities. 2018;6(2):1-20. [Persian]
17-Pirhayati Z, Gholmali Lavasani M, Hajhosseini M, Keshavarz Afshar H, Zandifar A. Underlying values of spouse selection: A Grounded Theory study. Rooyesh-e-Ravanshenasi Journal (RRJ). 2021;10(9):149-60.
18-Pasandideh A. Marital Satisfaction. Qom: Darol-Hadith Scientific and Cultural Institute; 2011. 1-8. [Persian]
19-Atari M. Assessment of long-term mate preferences in Iran. Evolutionary Psychology. 2017;15(2):1-17. [Persian]
20-Niyazi M, Miri S, Farhadian A. Development of a Model for Spouse Selection Criteria in Iran. The Women and Families Cultural-Educational. 2019;14(48):121-44. [Persian]
21-Salehi-Mobarakeh S, Fallah MH, Vaziri-Yazdi S, Chabokinejad Z. Designing a Pre-Marriage Consultation According to the Lived Experiences of the Women with Unsuccessful Choice: Evaluating Its Efficacy on Criteria for Choosing a Spouse of Female Students. Medical Journal of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. 2022;64(6):4408-20. [Persian]
22-Liu Y, Ge T, Jiang Q. Changing family relationships and mental health of Chinese adolescents: the role of living arrangements. Public Health. 2020;186:110-5.
23-Eastwick PW, Finkel EJ. Sex differences in mate preferences revisited: Do people know what they initially desire in a romantic partner? Journal of personality and social psychology. 2008;94(2):245.
24-Altuntaş S, Atli A. The development of choosing partner strategies inventory. Mustafa Kemal University Journal of Social Sciences Institute. 2015;12(32):123-35.
25-Keldal G, Atli A. Predictors of Turkish University students’ marital attitudes. Current Psychology. 2020;39(4):1354-61.
26-Keldal G. The relationships between personality traits and mate selection strategies of Turkish young adults. Current Psychology. 2020:1-6.
27-Tsoukas A, March E. Predicting short-and long-term mating orientations: the role of sex and the dark tetrad. The Journal of Sex Research. 2018;55(9):1206-18.
28- Haratiyan AA, Mousavi MS, Ershad-Hoseini H, Janbozorg A. Designing and Constructing the Scale of Mate Selection Criteria: Before and After Marriage (SMSC). Cultural Psychology. 2021;4(2):19-40. [Persian]
29- Samania S. Family process and content model: A contextual model for family studies. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2011;30:2285-92. [Persian]
30-Atar S, Ghaderi Z. The relationship between spouse selection criteria and marital satisfaction and quality of life in married women in Shiraz. National Conference on Social and Psychological Disorders; Firozabad. 2018. [Persian]
31-Andrew DP, Pedersen PM, McEvoy CD. Research methods and design in sport management. Human Kinetics; 2019. 12-174.
32-Mousavi CKK, Hakkak M, Sepahvand R, Nazarpouri AH. Designing a Model of Global Talent Management in Sports Organizations based on Human Capital Development Journal of Human Resource Management in Sport. 2020;7(1):205-25. [Persian]
33-Kim JE. Changes in strauss & Corbin's Grounded theory. Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing. 2019;49(5):505-14.
34-Shamaei M, Esmaeili MR. Paradigmatic model of Jihadi management using Grounded data theory. Public Administration Perspective. 2014;19(3):119-50. [Persian]
35-Rezaei S. Designing a Revenue Model for Iranian Football Clubs: With Grounded Theory Approach. Applied Research of Sport Management. 2018;6(3):101-16. [Persian]
36-Isanejad O, Hoshmand S. Mate selection criteria for short-term and long-term relationships: the role of gender and previous relationships with the opposite sex. Strategic Research on Social Problems in Iran University of Isfahan. 2020;9(2):31-54. [Persian]
37-Jebraeili H, Zadeh Mohammadi A, Heidari M. Gender Differences in Mate Selection Criteria. Journal of Family Research. 2013;9(2):155-71. [Persian]
38-Mosallaeinejad L, Kargar MH. Examining the criteria of choosing a spouse from the point of view of two groups of male and female students of Jahrom Univesity of Medical Sciences. Teb va Tazkyeh. 2007;15(2):32-7. [Persian]
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