Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The aim of the study is to understand the motives and causes for marriage among young people, as well as the effect of variables such as (poverty, unemployment and economic inflation) on the desire to marry someone among young people, in this research, a descriptive method and a survey method (of the type social survey type) was used to conduct this research, the research sample is young people living in the city of Sulaimani who were between the ages of (18-34) at the time of the research, the sample consisted of (213) young people , in order to achieve the objectives of the research, a measure was used to measure the desire for marriage and the obstacles of (poverty, unemployment and inflation), the research reached the results: the motivation for marriage among young people is high and each of the obstacles (poverty, unemployment and inflation) reduce the desire of young people to marriage, men and women have the same views on the obstacles (poverty and inflation), but men believe that unemployment is a strong obstacle to the marriage process and there is an inverse relationship between the desire for marriage and (poverty, unemployment and inflation).
Author: Ahmad A. Hama Mahmood
Institutions: Kurdistan Regional Government, University of Sulaimani
Language: English
Topic: Marriage and Family Dynamics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411503829