The degree of prevalence of the phenomenon of late marriage age among female graduate students and its relationship to the educational stage and criteria for choosing a partner A field study in some faculties of Damascus University

Abstract

The degree of prevalence of the phenomenon of late marriage age among female graduate students at the University of Damascus and its relationship to the educational stage and criteria for choosing a partner.

The aim of the research is to know the degree of prevalence of the phenomenon of delayed marriage age among postgraduate students at the University of Damascus, its causes, and its relationship to the educational stage and criteria for choosing urination. The descriptive analytical approach was used based on the study of correlational relationships, and the questionnaire was adopted as a tool for data collection. The research sample

was represented by the faculties of Damascus University in four (4) faculties: (Education, Arts, Agriculture, Dentistry), and the number of the research sample was (783) female students. (583) master's students and (200) doctoral students, the research reached a set of results, the most important of which were: The high prevalence of the phenomenon of late marriage age among postgraduate students at Damascus University. In addition, there is a statistically significant correlation between the delay in the age of marriage and the educational stage. The conditions of the war on Syria came as one of the reasons for the delay in the age of marriage in the first place, the economic factor in the second place, educational factors in the third place, and social factors as the least of the reasons that lead to the delay in the age of marriage for female graduate students. The psychological and emotional compatibility criterion came in the first place, and the homogeneity in the educational level in the second rank, while the other criteria, respectively, came as the lowest criteria in choosing the appropriate partner for graduate students.