Qualitative study of marriage damaging gender schemas and husband role expectations

The influential dynamics on the development of individual identity and personality styles affects the manner in which an individual communicate with others. The purpose of this research is to study qualitatively gender schemas and husband role expectations which damages the marriage. This was a qualitative research. Open questions were used to collect data. By coding and classification of words، phrases، sentences، the concepts and schemas were identified. The participants were 25 graduate students of Allameh and Science and Culture Universities in 1391 and 1392. Results showed that participants in projecting their thoughts on marriage have shown many incompatible schemas. The results showed that the perception of man as a superior power، the woman: Regarding the man as a power، the woman as a loser، the requirements of life as a onerous factor for women، having unrealistic expectations (of self and others) and ideal expectations from husbands (regardless of own role) damages the relationship.