The Lived Experience of Early Marriage in Jordan

The Perspective of Adolescent Girls and Young Women

Dados Bibliográficos

ID16915741
AutoresLina Mrayan (0000-0002-3782-6485, Hashemite University, autor correspondente), Salwa Obeisat (Jordan University of Science and Technology)
Ano2021
Volume11
Fascículo3
Data de publicação2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/21582440211048895
OpenAlexW3203765608
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas19

Child or early marriage, primarily due to cultural factors, continues as a tradition and seems to be a growing phenomenon in Jordan. This research explores the lived experience of early marriage from the perspective of adolescent girls and young women. A qualitative research design and in-depth face-to-face interviews in the Arabic language were conducted with 36 female subjects, married before the age of 18 and all newlyweds, married for less than 3 years. Six major themes emerged from the interviews to describe the experience of the participants: “Feeling remorse about getting married early”; “Loss of authority and feeling powerless”; “Reasons behind early marriage”; “Feeling pressure to have the first baby”; “Early marriage and pregnancy health consequences”; and “The positive aspects of an early marriage.” The lived experience revealed in this study confirm the overall negative effect of girls entering marriage at a young age, Early marriage is a violation of human rights, and robs girls of their childhood, education, work, and other life choices, in addition to the reported adverse psychological and physical effects

Child marriage · Developmental psychology · Feeling · Population · Qualitative research · Remorse · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in MENA