فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Young people’s attitudes toward marriage have been undergone changes inrecent years and it seems to be contradicting in the struggle between conservative and modernliberal attitudes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitude of new grooms toward intacthymen in Kerman.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross‑sectional study has been conducted on 790 new groomsin Kerman, Iran. In this study, we examined the attitudes in two aspects of sexual norm and personalattitude toward premarital relationships in new grooms. The sampling method was purposive samplingand the data were analyzed using t‑test and analysis of variance.RESULTS: The results of this study have showed a more conservative sexual attitude towardthe sexual norms of premarital sex. The average score of the participants in the sexual norm andpersonal attitude was, respectively 15.86 and 48.15, indicating that their conservative views havebeen overcome. Most of the samples (90%) have believed in required preserving virginity beforemarriage, and 82% believed in virginity as the most valuable asset of the girls. In this study, theconservative attitudes of men were inversely related with their age and were directly related withperceived sexual norm and the level of affinity to religious affairs.CONCLUSION: According to the results of this study, conservative attitudes toward premaritalrelationships are predominating in new grooms, but this is not generalized. The conservative attitudeof new grooms may have harmful effects on their interpersonal behaviors after marriage, whichrequires purposeful training.