Relations between Different Levels of Premarital Relationship and Attitude of Parents towards It with the Level of Couple's Marital Compatibility

The developments in the Iranian society have caused significant changes in the forms of premarital relations among the youth. A review of the related literature indicates that if such a relationship is with several persons and in the advanced formed, it will leave adverse impacts on the quality of relations with the next person. But, if it is adopted as a means to marriage under the supervision of family and society, it will upgrade the quality of the person’s choice. Attempts have been made in the paper to study the relationship between different levels of premarital relations with the level of couple’s marital compatibility. Given the decisive role of family in the discourse of Iranian society, attempts have been made to study the attitude of parents towards premarital relations and marriage of their children. The accessible sampling frame and snowball method was used to collect the data. The respondents were asked to fill out the forms of the level of their relations as well as the Marital Compatibility Test. The findings indicate that the level of marital compatibility of individuals who did not have any relations or had limited relations before marriage is higher than those who had advanced and multiple relations.In addition, the consent of the parents to marriage, increases the level of marital compatibility.