ناصر یوسفی

Abstract: The present study aims at examining foreign-people communication (including traveling to and having contact with foreign countries and their people) as a predictor of inclination toward marrying spouses with Iranian culture. The researcher made an effort to find the answer to the following question; to what extent a young travelling to a foreign country in order to study, work, have vacations, or etc is eager to marry a foreign spouse. In other words, what is the extent to which a young inclination toward having an intracultural marriage is affected by what s/he sees, experiences, and evaluates while closely encountering with a foreign culture? Methods: correlative and discriminate analyses were used for data analysis. Samples include 60 overseas-gone clients (both men and women) tending to marry and 70 normal clients (both men and women), (130 total). To select the go out and tend to marry sample, the client population, whether referred or self-referred ones, in counseling centers (both private and public) of city of Sanandaj in 1390 were used. In other words, from the same counseling centers were normal clients (didn't go out) also chosen. All sample clients were assessed by researcher-made questionnaires on marriage desire and also by diagnostic interviews. Findings: Descriptive statistics along with discriminate analysis was used for data analysis to discriminate tow groups tendency to marry an Iranian spouse. The results of the descriptive statistics showed that there is no difference between the average of go-out groups and that of didn't go-out in terms of the desire to marry an Iranian spouse. The results confirmed the research hypothesis and indicated that the predictability of getting married with Iranian spouses among the go-out youth is plausible. Discriminate analysis did not differentiate between the points. In other words, engaging in foreign relations had significant predictors (p<0/001) within the domain of desire to marry a spouse with Ir