TY - JOUR T1 - Premarital Education Program Based on Premarital Interpersonal Choices and Knowledge Program on Idealistic Marital Expectation in Single Students TT - آموزش قبل از ازدواج به شیوه برنامه آگاهی و انتخاب‎های بین‎فردی بر انتظارات زناشویی ایده‌آل گرایانه دانشجویان مجرد JF - ijpcp JO - ijpcp VL - 22 IS - 3 UR - http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-2640-en.html Y1 - 2016 SP - 212 EP - 221 KW - Premarital education KW - Premarital interpersonal choice and knowledge program KW - Idealistic marital expectation N2 - Objectives The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of premarital education based on interpersonal choice and knowledge program in reducing idealistic marital expectation. Methods This research was a experimental design with pretest-posttest and follow-up with the control group. From this population, 38 volunteer single students of universities of Ahvaz city were selected on the basis of 1 standard deviation higher of the mean of idealistic marital expectation subscale and were assigned randomly to experiment group (n=19) and control group (n=19). The experiment group was given a premarital interpersonal choice and knowledge program of 9 sessions, twice a week for 90 minutes. Results The results of analysis of variance repeated measures showed that the premarital interpersonal choice and knowledge program training has led to a reduction in idealistic marital expectation in the experimental group than in the control group at posttest and follow-up. Conclusion Our results showed that the premarital interpersonal choice and knowledge program is a suitable method for reducing the idealistic marital expectation singles. M3 10.18869/acadpub.ijpcp.22.3.212 ER -