The study of underlying substrates of delay in girls marriage with DEA approach

Marriage as a social, biological and cultural event, has significant effects on demographic structure and consequently on the Structure of respective institutions. Growing trend of increasing age of marriage, especially among females, is a new phenomenon which has a fundamental role in development of this structure through the evolution of family. According to this, current research seeks to review and explore the contexts and conditions of delay in females age of marriage, using qualitative method and phenomenological approach. For this purpose, 20 girls over 30 years old were studied by The Purposive Sampling Method and using Deep Semi-structured Interview in a narrative form. The results of the analysis of the participant's experiences led to identifying 346 initial codes, 9 primary sub-codes, 9 secondary sub-codes, and two main codes including personal contexts and social and cultural contexts. The most important obstacles to females marriage were conceptualized in the form of ideological patterns, psychological patterns, time-related experiences, development of relations between the sexes, filtering by significant others and the weakness of moral principles. The results of the analysis of explored themes showed that contexts and conditions of delay in females age of marriage are much more complex than some factors generally provided.