Document Type : Original Article
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PhD Student in Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
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Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Tabriz, Iran
Abstract
Background: Despite different views on the appropriate age for marriage, the tendency for child marriage is common in some parts of the country, and it is increasing.
Aim: The purpose of this study is to design a model for empowerment of child wives based on grounded theory.
Methods: The research desig was qulatative research with grounded theory apporch. The sample included 18 child wives in Shabestar, selected via purposive and criterion sampling.The data collection instruments were semi-structured interviews and library resources.
Results: The categories were revealed in the form of the six dimensions of a paradigmatic model, with inter-relations between them. The dimensions were causal conditions (theoretical knowledge; behavior of parents, family, and society), central category (empowerment of child wives), strategies (economic strategies, development of social skills, development of scientific and counselling skills, and religious strategies), contextual conditions (demographic and geographical conditions, socio-economic conditions, cultural conditions, lack of maturity, lack of independence), intervening conditions (past experience, desire for the past, dominant culture, and conditions of the wife) and consequences (physical, family, social, mental, psychological, and personal consequences); furthermore, 61 sub-categories were also identified.
Conclusions: Empowering child wives and teaching them necessary skills can solve many of the basic challenges they face and increase the marital satisfaction in child marriage.
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