Hossein Mahmoudian; Ahmad Dorahaki
Volume 13, Issue 23 , April 2014, , Pages 63-81
Abstract
Simultaneously modern Iranian society the family and marriage have changed and will change. One of these changes is to increase in boy and girl friendship before marriage. Iranian Society has worked constantly for durability and strength of family and marriage and Banned Individual from factors that ...
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Simultaneously modern Iranian society the family and marriage have changed and will change. One of these changes is to increase in boy and girl friendship before marriage. Iranian Society has worked constantly for durability and strength of family and marriage and Banned Individual from factors that can have damaging effects on this Institution. Students and highly educated class one of class society are disposing to these changes. In this regard using survey data take on post graduate students of Tehran University in 2012 attempt to answer the basic questions that what is an attitude of post Graduate students of Tehran University about boy and girl friendship relations before marriage? And what Factors Impact on their attitudes about boy and girl friendship relations before marriage? Method of sampling in this study multiple cluster sampling and sample size is 393. According to available theory and research background, gender, age, marital status, meta-materialism, the opportunity cost of marriage and family-centered selected and their impact on the dependent variable attitude to friendship boy and girl before marriage was studied. The results of this research indicated that about 74 percent of the post graduate students of Tehran University have positive attitude about boy and girl friendship relations before marriage. As well as the results indicate that the meta-materialism variable the Most impact on attitude about boy and girl friendship relations before marriage. Family-centered, the opportunity cost of marriage, marital status and gender were next in order of rank. In total the independent variables have explained about 39 percent of variation of boy and girl friendship relations before marriage.
