Comparison of Attitude Towards Marriage of Female Students Before and After Family Knowledge Course

In recent years, there have been changes in the attitude of girls towards marriage and it has affected their desire to get married. The present research was conducted with the aim of comparing the attitude towards marriage of the female students of Shahid University before and after holding the family knowledge course in the first half of 2019-2019.

The method of descriptive-analytical research was before and after comparison. The research was conducted on 159 undergraduate female students of Shahid University in Tehran. Sampling was done as available, and the samples were students who had taken a two-unit course on population and family knowledge in the second half of 1399-1400. Data was collected using the Marriage Attitude Scale (MAS) with four subscales of optimistic, pessimistic, realistic and idealistic views. The questionnaire was completed by the students once before the beginning of the course and the second time three months later (after the completion of 14 teaching sessions of population and family knowledge). Data analysis was done with spss software version 21.

The average age of the subjects studied was 21.19 ± 3.88 years. The difference of general attitude towards marriage before 77.87 ± 9.48 and after 83.57 ± 9.25 was significant (p<0.001). The sub-scales of attitude towards marriage, including optimistic, idealistic and realistic attitude towards marriage, before and after, had a significant difference (p<0.001).   But the pessimistic attitude had no significant difference (p=0.615).

According to the results of the research, the population and family knowledge course has been able to improve the general attitude towards marriage, and considering the decrease in the marriage rate in recent years, it is better to present this course in the first year of education to motivate marriage will be established in them sooner.