The Effectiveness of a Counseling Program in the Manner of Playing a Role in the Development of a Sound Marriage Choice Among Female University Students who are Qualified for Marriage

Abstract

The current research aims at finding out the effectiveness of the role-playing method in developing sound marital choices among female university students who are eligible for marriage. The current research is a quasi-experimental design with an initial test, a post-test, and a follow-up test, with two groups (experimental and control), and the basic research sample consisted of (40) students according to the grades they obtained from the sound marital choice scale. The scale was distributed to the female students three times in the pre-test, the post-test, and the follow-up test (in less than 60 days). The results of the study showed the effectiveness of the counseling method in developing the sound marital choice among female university students who are qualified for marriage, and the presence of statistically significant differences between the ranks of the sound marital choice scores between the experimental and control groups for the post-test, and when comparisons were made, differences were found in favor of the experimental group. According to the results of the current research, the researcher reached several conclusions, recommendations, and proposals.