Effective Socio-Economic Factors on the Increase of the Youth Marriage Age

Abstract

Marriage age is one of the important indexes to the mental and physical health evaluation in the society. The aim of this study is the knowledge of socio-economic factors related to increase of marriage age in Kermanshah City. The research is descriptive with questionnaire the age in age range is 25-39 in Kermanshah. 380 individuals were selected via Chocran cluster random sampling. The results were analyzed, through Face, criterion and construct validity have been used to verify the validity and alpha coefficients to assess the reliability of the measurement. The Pearson correlation, analysis of variance and regression were used to verify hypothesis and the research model. According to the results, (sexual equality (r=0.48), education (r=-0.32), style of Autocratic birth upbringing (r=0.235), style of democratic birth upbringing (r=-0.44), Expectancy (r=0.30), parent Stricture (r=0.414), joy of single (0.269) and the use of medicine (r= 0.149) ).According to regression coefficients, parent Stricture, style of birth upbringing, sexual Inequality, Settlement situated and self-esteem entered into regression model explained (48 percent) of dependent variable variance.