The Effects of Partner-Selection Patterns, Marriage Age, and Age Differences between Spouses on Marital Quality of Married Women in Tehran

Nowadays, with the transition of the societies from traditional and community oriented to modernity and individualism there is a noticeable increase in the marriage age (especially among women) and the desire to select partner singly. On the other hand, we are seeing an increase on the dissatisfaction, conflict, lack of commitment, divorce, and generally decrease of marital quality which damages the body of family and society. In this paper, we study the effects of partner-selection patterns, marriage age, and age differences between the spouses on the marital quality of married women in Tehran. The research's method is causal -comparative. The population is selected from married women in Tehran, Iran. The total number of the participants is 400 which were selected by Non-probability sampling method by visiting public parks in Tehran, Iran. They responded to marital quality questionnaire, revised version (RDAS), and questions to evaluate the marriage age, partner selection method, and the age differences with their spouses .From the important observations we noted that it is statistically significant that girls who are forced to get married and who get married in teenage age shave lower marital quality compared others. Also, it was shown that couples’ age difference deos not have a statistically significant influence on the marital quality.