Comparing Married Students' Personality Traits and Attitudes Toward Choosing a Spouse with and without a Relationship Premarital

Introductoin:

 This study aims to compare personality traits and attitudes toward choosing a spouse with and without a relationship before marriage.

The current research was descriptive and comparative. The research population included all married students between 20-40 years old in the year (2018-2019) at Kermanshah Azad University.  A total of 80 students (40 having a relationship and 40 not having a premarital relationship) were selected as the research sample using the purposive sampling method. Neo's (1992) Personality Questionnaire and Larson's (1993) Attitude Towards Choice Questionnaire were used to collect data. Research hypotheses were analyzed based on multivariate analysis of variance by spss24 software.

The results indicated that there is a significant difference between the subscales of personality traits, new experiences, and conscientiousness, as well as experience-oriented factors and good faith as the way of looking for a spouse in married couples with and without a relationship before marriage (P≥0.05). In fact, people who do not have a relationship before marriage consider marriage, not a sexual relationship and producing children, but also to creating a perfectionist life with love and empathy.

Based on the findings, it can be concluded that psychologists and counselors in premarital counseling processes should pay attention to the personality traits of people and their attitudes toward marriage.