Fatemeh Akbarzadeh; Majid Reza Karimi; Karamat Alah Rasekh
Abstract
The research is to study the social contexts affecting the body management of young women on the verge of marriage. It was a qualitative researches that was carried out in the field. The qualitative method used in this research was phenomenological. The participants included young women on the verge ...
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The research is to study the social contexts affecting the body management of young women on the verge of marriage. It was a qualitative researches that was carried out in the field. The qualitative method used in this research was phenomenological. The participants included young women on the verge of marriage in Shiraz Whom were selected using purposeful sampling through the approach of selecting homogeneous sampling and at the same time observing the maximum diversity. This problem was formed until theoretical saturation was reached. Finally, 15 interviews were conducted in this regard. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. In order to analyze the data, thematic analysis was used.
The results showed that there are 6 main themes and 44 sub-themes. According to the results, the social factors affecting the body management of young women on the eve of marriage were identified in 6 sections including lifestyle, fashion, social acceptability, Job, roles and social class and education.
