Designing a Pre-Marriage Consultation and Evaluating Its Efficacy on Inefficient Attitudes Towards Choosing a Spouse of Female Students

The present study was conducted to investigate designing a pre-marriage consultation according to the lived experiences of the women with unsuccessful choice and evaluating its efficacy on inefficient attitudes towards choosing a spouse of female students.

The research method of the current study was phenomenology in the qualitative part and quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design in the quantitative part. The statistical population of the present study included married women with unsuccessful choice in the city of Isfahan in 2019 and the statistical population in the quantitative part included single female students at the universities of Isfahan in academic year 2018-19. 12 women with unsuccessful choice were selected through purposive sampling method and took in-depth interview in order to compile the packages of pre- marriage consultation. 40 female students were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control group in the quantitative part. The experimental group received ten sessions of pre-marriage consultation. The applied questionnaires included marital conflict (MCQ) and attitude towards choosing a spouse (ATCSQ). The data taken from the study were analyzed through ANCOVA.

The results showed that pre-marriage consultation has significant effect on female students’ inefficient attitudes towards choosing a spouse (F=41.23, Eta= 0.56, P≤0.001).

According to the findings of the present study, pre-marriage consultation package can be used as an efficient method to decrease inefficient attitudes towards choosing a spouse youth’s employing the experiences of the women with unsuccessful choice and revealing the features of unsuccessful choice.