جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « premarital relationships » در نشریات گروه « روانشناسی »

Marital orientation refers to assessing individuals' optimistic or pessimistic attitudes toward marriage. Among the influential factors shaping young people's marital orientation are the relationships they have with others before marriage, as well as their psychological capital. In past studies, family friendship has also been identified as one of the influential factors. However, to date, no model has been proposed for marital orientation based on the relationships between these components.

The aim of the current research was to model marital orientation based on psychological capital and premarital relationship attitudes with the mediation of family friendship.

The present research was descriptive and employed correlational structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study included all single students of Islamic Azad University in Isfahan province. Considering the number of research variables and conventional statistical methods, a sample of 500 individuals (303 females and 197 males) was selected using stratified random sampling method. Participants completed questionnaires on marital orientation (Guanji, 2020), psychological capital (Luthans, 2007), premarital relationship attitudes (Kourdeloo, 2001), and family friendship (Hashemi Garmdarreh, 2019). The data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software.

The findings indicate that among the predictor and mediator variables, optimism, resilience, and self-efficacy, as well as family friendship, have a direct relationship with marital orientation
(p< 0.05). Additionally, psychological capital and premarital relationship attitudes can predict marital orientation through the family friendship variable (p< 0.05).

Based on the results obtained, it can be said that the higher the levels of psychological capital and family friendship among students, the more optimistic their orientation towards marriage will be. Considering the results, the family friendship variable plays an important and influential mediating role in the relationship between psychological capital and premarital relationship attitudes with marital orientation.

Communicating with the opposite sex is an important part of human life, especially for young people; several factors, including sexual education, are influential in the degree of tendency or non-tendency to such relationships. The aim of this study was to investigate sexual education in girls with premarital relationships. The study population consisted of young girls who had experienced premarital sex with the opposite sex (whether sexual, emotional, or emotional-sexual). The samples included 12 female students in the age group of 22-28 and living in Tehran in 2019- 2021 and had such relationships and were selected by purposive sampling method. The research tool was a semi-structured interview. Colaizzi's method was used to analyze the data. The results identified 2 main categories, 7 subcategories, and 20 primary concepts. The two main categories are family performance and attitude in relation to sex education and sociocultural information resources related to sex education. The present study showed that the lack of proper sexual education, either directly or indirectly, leads people to establish a relationship with the opposite sex before marriage; Therefore, it is suggested to hold meetings based on providing sex education to parents and educators in centers such as kindergartens, schools, and neighborhood centers, and apply suitably and enhancing educational methods to them. Also, in order to prevent the increasing prevalence of premarital relationships, it is recommended that universities, families, officials, and cultural planners use preventive programs in this direction.