Marriage Choice Standards for Male Students in Al-Maarif University College

Abstract

https://doi.org/10.51345/.v32i2.359.g222

The research aims at knowing the order of the choice standards according to their importance and priorities in marriage used by male students at Al-Maarif University College in the light of hadith Sharif: women got married for four characteristics: wealth, lineage, or religion: choose the one of religion to be the winner. the research also intends to uncover whether there is a relationship between their choice for marriage and some variables such as: study specialization, study stage, economic and social levels. the research took as a sample (264) students from the different departments of the college. Thus, the researcher wrote a questionnaire consisting of (12) items and made sure of their validity and consistency. The results of the work show the order of the four standards according to their priority and preference as follows: the standard of religion is the first, followed by the standard of beauty, and thirdly the standard of lineage, while the standards of wealth come last. as far the relationship between the standard and some variables is concerned, the results show that the order of the choice standards differs according to the different departments of the college and the study specialization. it also differs according to the study stages and similarly differs according to the economic and social levels of the students.