Iranian Students' Attitudes toward Premarital Sex, Marriage, and Family in Different College Majors

Autor/inn/en	Mokhtari, Saba; Shariat, Seyed Vahid; Ardebili, Mehrdad Eftekhar; Shalbafan, Mohammadreza
Titel	Iranian Students' Attitudes toward Premarital Sex, Marriage, and Family in Different College Majors
Quelle	In: Journal of American College Health, 70 (2022) 4, S.1186-1194 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0744-8481
DOI	10.1080/07448481.2020.1789150
Schlagwörter	Student Attitudes; Undergraduate Students; Sexuality; Child Rearing; Marriage; Family (Sociological Unit); Attitude Measures; Majors (Students); Age Differences; Gender Differences; Religious Factors; Islam; Beliefs; Reputation; Social Bias; Females; Divorce; Art Education; Medical Students; Humanities; Mathematics Education; Engineering Education; Foreign Countries; Comparative Analysis; Social Attitudes; Iran (Tehran) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülerverhalten; Sexualität; Kindererziehung; Ehe; Familie; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Belief; Glaube; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ehescheidung; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Mathematische Bildung; Ingenieurausbildung; Ausland; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung
Abstract	Objective: This study is performed to examine the attitudes regarding marriage, family, and premarital sex among the students of different majors. Participants: Four hundred fifty-seven students from four majors studying Medical Sciences, Arts, Humanities, and Mathematics/Engineering within the age range of 18- to 24-year old. Method: Participants were selected from different universities in Tehran using stratified nonprobability sampling method. Attitudes of our participants were examined using the premarital sexual, marital, child-rearing, and family attitude Survey and demographic variables, including major, age, gender, religious beliefs, family socioeconomic level, and marital status were evaluated. Results: Most of the results of the survey showed significant differences between different majors. Art students were open to premarital sex more than other students and believed that premarital sex would cause no harm in reputation for females. By contrast, Medical sciences students had the highest agreement regarding the bad influence on the reputation of females because of premarital sex and also regarding men's tendency to virgin girls. Art students mostly approved the acceleration of the divorce process while the highest disapproval in this regard was reported from Medical sciences students. Conclusion: Art students' beliefs about premarital sex were more liberal, while Medical sciences students' beliefs in this matter were more conservative. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01