Challenges and Processe of Marriage Identity Construction in Early Marriage: A Grounded Theory Study

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. student in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran Tehran, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

4 Assistant Professor, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The present study was with the aim of investigating the challenges and the process of building a spouse's identity in early marriage. this study a qualitative approach with the method of data base theory was used. The participants in this research were 23 people, including married women under the age of 15, who were selected using the purposeful sampling method based on the principle of saturation. The research tool is a semi-structured interview with open and standardized questions, and this information was analyzed and classified with the approach of Schwartz & Corbin contextual theory. After examining and categorizing the findings in three stages of open, central and selective coding, 350 open codes, 48 sub-categories and 11 main categories were obtained, and the detailed analysis and exploration of the findings and the examination of the governing relationships among the categories led to the discovery of the central phenomenon. "Spouse's identity construction" was found in the research that this phenomenon can be seen in all categories. results of the research showed that life without childhood identity and individual and cultural factors of marriage as causal conditions, social pressure leading to unavoidable life choices and basic challenges and problems as background conditions, spouse learning patterns and acute crises in joint life as intervention conditions, changing
the life path, incompatible problem solving and adaptive problem solving were conceptualized as strategies and marital style and their life satisfaction and future outlook as a consequence of the construction of marital identity.

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  • Receive Date: 08 January 2023
  • Revise Date: 11 January 2023
  • Accept Date: 20 January 2023

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