Identifying the Effective Factors on Reducing the Desire to Marry Using Grounded Theory (GT)

Marriage is a social contract in which a woman and a man decide to live together as husband and wife based on legal, religious and moral obligations. the aim of the current research was to Identifying the Effective Factors on Reducing the Desire to Marry Using Grounded Theory (GT). The sample of the present study was 15 unmarried students of Islamic Azad University of Electronic Department in the first semester of the academic year 2022-3 and semi-structured interview was used to collect data. The time domain of the research was October 2022 and the method of data analysis was based on grounded theory with the systematic plan of Strauss and Corbin (1990). The findings showed that factors such as behavioral, psychological, economic, cultural, physical health and education, the most important causal factors, social-cultural and religious factors, the most important contextual factors; economic, socio-cultural, family and political factors have been the most important intervening factors in reducing the desire to marry, if in line with that, economic strategies, socio-cultural, personal-family, religious and occupational-educational are used, socio-cultural consequences, health He expected physical-psychological and military-political. According to the research findings; Based on the observed frequency and percentage of the total, among the mentioned factors, the most important factor in reducing the desire to marry is primarily behavioral; In the second degree, they have been identified as psychological, then economic, and if appropriate economic and cultural strategies are adopted, favorable consequences will occur. Therefore, developing appropriate counseling for young people can play an important role in improving this issue. also, this review can be useful for counseling and psychology centers in order to compile and design content aligned with the values of the Iranian-Islamic society and the issues in this field.