The Relationship between Loneliness and the Attitude to Love, Mate Selection Criteria in Islamic Azad University Gachsaran

Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy

Seyedeh Rahimeh Taghavi ¹ , Nazanin Honarparvaran ² , Katrin Fekri ³

1 - M.Sc. Student of Family Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch, Counseling Department, Marvdasht, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch, Counseling Department, Marvdasht, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch, Counseling Department, Marvdasht, Iran

Received: 2015-03-30 Accepted : 2015-06-03 Published : 2015-06-21

Keywords: loneliness, attitude towards love, mates selection criteria,

Abstract :

This study aimed to explore the relationship between loneliness and the attitude to love with mate selection criteria in Islamic Azad University, GACHSARAN. statistical population of this research includes the Islamic Azad University GACHSARAN undergraduate and graduate academic year 93-92 of the 155 people that a multistage cluster sampling measurements were selected. In this research following instruments were used: the questionnaire of loneliness, a questionnaire of attitude and love - the mate selection criteria. In order to analyze the data collected at the two descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage frequency of the cognitive variables (gender, etc.) And the average standard deviation of the variables) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient to determine the relationship between the variables and regression to predict variables) were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS software. Results of this study indicate that: there is no significant relationship between loneliness with mate selection criteria. Component of attitudes to love, between eros components, Pragma, and Mania substantive criteria and selection process, there is a significant positive correlation. The elements of love, eros and pragma two strong, the pre see criteria for mate selection are content. Component of Eros, Pragma, and the pre a Gapeh strong predictor process of mate selection criteria.