Designing a family concept model in successful young couples Based on Grounded Theory

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Zeinab Shahbakhti ¹ , Abdollah Shafiabady ² , Mahmoud Jajarmi ³ , Jafar Hasani ⁴

1 - , Counseling, Group psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Bojnord branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnord, Iran.
2 - Counselor, Vocational Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant professor, Family Counselor, Group psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Bojnord branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnord, Iran.
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, College of Education and Psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2021-11-14 Accepted : 2022-03-14 Published : 2021-12-01

Keywords: Life Experience, family concept, Successful married, basis grounded theory,

Abstract :

The present study, using the qualitative method strategy and corpus_based approach of the foundation, has tried to design a model of family concept in the lived experience of successful young couples. Thus, the research data were collected using in-depth interviews from 7 successful couples (14 people) who were selected by purposive and theoretical sampling method. Also, to analyze the data obtained from the interviews, the theoretical coding process was used to enumerate the concepts, sub-categories and main categories based on the paradigm model of Strauss and Corbin (1990). Findings showed that the model of family concept in the lived experience of successful couples has reached theoretical saturation from 12 main categories, 34 sub-categories and 112 concepts. Successfully made. Findings of this study show that causal conditions include the main categories: rejection of structural and ideological change of the family, cultural and economic factors, contextual conditions including the main categories: having family social capital, the existence of declarative interaction and lack of instrumental interaction, Intervention conditions consisted of the main categories: having life skills and separation of private and public areas. In addition, the central category of balanced family development and action and interaction in the lived experience of successful couples consisting of meeting the needs of the family has been identified. Outcomes consisted of the main categories: women's empowerment and b- having family support.