The effect of increasing marital age on the Families Intergroup Solidarity of Tehran City

Subject Areas : ‌Family

Mohmmad Shapouri ¹ , bagher saokhani ² , Mohmmad Sadegh Mahdavy ³

1 - Ph.D. Student, Department of Science and Research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Sociology, Department of Sociology , Science and Research Branch ,Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Sociology. Science and research Branch of Islamic Azad university, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-01-16 Accepted : 2018-11-27 Published : 2018-08-23

Keywords: &quot, solidarity&quot, , &quot, intergroup solidarity&quot, , &quot, Marriage&quot, , &quot, family&quot, ,

Abstract :

This research has been conducted to effect of increasing marital age on the Families intergroup solidarity, with a focus on a case study of Tehran city. Based on the previous findings and an examination of related theories in this field, the theoretical foundations of institutionalism, systems and new institutionalism approaches have been chosen as the theoretical framework of the research. This is a quantitative survey research, with a statistical population of families living in Tehran in 2016 and a sample size of 598 people. The study has used "cluster and probability sampling". All required data for this research have been collected with a researcher-made questionnaire and analyzed through descriptive statistics, one dimensional and two dimensional and inferential tables in SPSS. In order to measure the validity and reliability of the collected data, Cronbach's alpha has been drawn upon. In addition, the face validity has been obtained by researchers and experts' judgments. According to the results, the main hypothesis of the research was confirmed, meaning that there is a weak but negative significant correlation between increasing marital age and family intergroup solidarity. Of the secondary hypotheses, that proposing a relationship between the variable of age with family intergroup solidarity were accepted and those suggesting a relationship between the variables of education level and length of residency in Tehran with family intergroup solidarity were not proved.