Relationship between Delay Marriages with Self-Knowledge, Mindfulness and Mental Health of Single Students

 The purpose of this study was investigated the reasons of the delay in marriage and its relationship with self-knowledge, mindfulness and mental health in the single students.

 This was a descriptive study. The statistical society was all over 30 years old Tehran University students. Five hundred and thirty-seven people were selected and invited to answer the delay in marriage questionnaire, self-knowledge, mindfulness questionnaire and Hopkins’s List syndrome.

The results showed that the economic factors, the causes of educational and sociocultural factors had positive significant relationship with delay marriage. Also mindfulness and anxiety had positive significant relationship with economy, education and, socio-cultural factors. Depression and somatization had negative significant relationship with mindfulness. Interpersonal sensitivity also had negative statistical relationship with economic factors and selfknowledge. Education causes predicted only interpersonal sensitivity (P=0/02); socio-cultural factors able to predicted self-knowledge (P=0/03), mindfulness (P=0/02) and interpersonal sensitivity (P =0/02). Economic reasons (t=2/17), educational causes (t=3/52) and socio-cultural factors (t=2/76) in unmarried male and female students were significantly different. Between mindfulness (t =3/08), anxiety (t =1/86) and obsession (t =1/83) there was a significant difference in male and female students were single.