Analyzing Early Divorce among Young Couples in the City of Qom; a Qualitative Study Based on Grounded Theory

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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran.

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The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the causes, contexts, and consequences of early divorce among young couples in the city of Qom using the qualitative method of grounded theory, and a paradigm model of early divorce was presented by reviewing the explanatory theories of divorce. The data was collected by semi-structured in-depth interviews. The population included divorced men and women aged 18 to 35 in Qom with a maximum of 4 years of cohabitation, and 26 of them were selected by the judgmental sampling until theoretical saturation was reached in the interviews. After coding the data from the interviews and extracting the concepts, the main categories were identified and finally the selected category of the study was determined. The findings showed that the early collapse of the marital relationship among young couples is a multifaceted phenomenon that originates from the interaction of several factors. Communication, behavioral (lack of empathy, failure to meet sexual and emotional needs, inability to solve problems between couples), and moral problems of couples, conflict between tradition and modernity in marriage patterns, identity and gender roles, illness and infertility of one of the couples and meaninglessness in life, and the interfering social, cultural and economic factors, as well as the malfunctioning of the couples' family, play a fundamental role in the formation of early divorce.

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The Islamic Journal Of Women and The Family
Volume 11, Issue 4 - Serial Number 33
December 2023
Pages 169-202

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