Shahrabadi Reza, Karimi-Shahanjarini Akram, Dashti Saeed, Soltanian Alireza, Garmaroudi Gholamreza
Ph.D. Student in Health Education and Promotion, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Associate Professor, Social Determinants of Health Research Center and Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Electron Physician. 2017 Apr 25;9(4):4090-4095. doi: 10.19082/4090. eCollection 2017 Apr.
Marriage is a social capital in society, so that makes the behavioral and social stability of parents and children in a generation, productive. Various factors can affect the intention of marriage, including individual, economic, social and cultural factors. The present study aimed to determine predictors of university students' intention to marriage based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB).
This cross-sectional study was performed among 192 single students (Master and PhD students with five to seven years of dentistry and medicine) in Hamadan, in 2014. The samples in this study were selected through convenient sampling. The data collection tools were demographic and TPB questionnaires. A questionnaire based on the TPB model was used in order to assess attitude toward behavior, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intention. Data were analyzed by using SPSS16 and descriptive indexes, independent-samples t-test, One-way ANOVA and multivariate linear regression at 95% significant level.
The results showed that attitudes toward marriage (β=0.217; p=0.001), subjective norms (β=0.366; p<0.001), and perceived behavioral control (β=0.279; p<0.001) significantly predicted students' intention to marriage. The TPB constructs explained 44% of the variance of intention.
Results indicated that strategies to improve the intention of marriage can include: expression of psychological needs such as having a companion, the importance of responsibility, society attitude of marriage, parents and marriage, the importance of the decision-making power and job position.
婚姻是社会中的一种社会资本，它能使一代人中父母和子女的行为及社会稳定性具有生产力。多种因素会影响结婚意愿，包括个人、经济、社会和文化因素。本研究旨在基于计划行为理论（TPB）确定大学生结婚意愿的预测因素。
2014年，在哈马丹对192名单身学生（牙科和医学专业五至七年的硕士和博士研究生）进行了这项横断面研究。本研究中的样本通过便利抽样选取。数据收集工具为人口统计学和TPB问卷。使用基于TPB模型的问卷来评估行为态度、主观规范、感知行为控制和意愿。使用SPSS16进行数据分析，并在95%的显著水平下使用描述性指标、独立样本t检验、单因素方差分析和多元线性回归。
结果表明，对婚姻的态度（β = 0.217；p = 0.001）、主观规范（β = 0.366；p < 0.001）和感知行为控制（β = 0.279；p < 0.001）显著预测了学生的结婚意愿。TPB结构解释了意愿方差的44%。
结果表明，提高结婚意愿的策略可包括：表达心理需求，如有伴侣的需求、责任的重要性、社会对婚姻的态度、父母与婚姻、决策权和工作地位的重要性。
