Citation

Abedi H, Babaei B, Ghorbanian H. Adv. Environ. Biol. 2013; 7(9): 2360-2367.

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(Copyright © 2013, American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information (AENSI))

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Abstract

The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of the intervention based on the increasing awareness of psychosocial pathologies due to premature marriages on the mothers and daughters' attitude in Roshtkhar. The study was conducted in the framework of a Quasi-experimental design of two-group type with pretest-posttest and a one-month follow-up. The population of the study consists of all mothers and daughters of Roshtkhar; and the sampling was done through a cluster-random method. The subjects were divided into two groups of experimental and control. The subjects in the experimental group received the educational interventions for mothers and daughters, but the control group did not receive any intervention. The instrument for the study was a researcher-made questionnaire named "attitude towards premature marriage". This questionnaire consisted of 3 components of social, mental-emotional injuries and family harms, and 8 scales of attitudes towards addiction, sexual issues, suicide, house escaping, social anxiety, family violence and aggression, mental pressure and family atmosphere in 98 items which investigated the mothers and daughters' attitudes toward premature marriage. Having used the factor analysis and principal component method and the item correlation with the total test, the validity of the instrument has been tested; and by the Cronbach alpha method the reliability of the test was checked, both of which were satisfactory. The result of the multivariate analysis of covariance and the pre-test scores of the daughters showed that in total the preventive interventions for premature marriage have caused changes in daughters' attitudes in the post-test and follow-up stages. The result of related T-test for the mothers also showed that in subscale, there has been a statistically significant difference in the post-test scores comparing those of pre-test in experimental group concerning the attitudes toward aggression, mental pressure, family harms and addiction.

Language: en

Keywords

Awareness; Intervention; Attitude; Premature marriage; Psychosocial damages