The aim of this study was to explain the relationship between marital satisfaction with personal (demographic) characteristics of students participating in student wedding ceremonies. Accordingly, this study is regarded as an applied research in terms of its objectives and a descriptive-correlational research in terms of method of data collection. The research population consisted of couples studying at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (at least one of the couples being a student) who attended the student wedding ceremony. The sample consisted of 88 students who started their shared life with the celebration of student marriage and were selected through census. The instruments used to collect the data were the researcher-made demographic factors questionnaire and Enrich Marital Satisfaction Scale whose reliability and validity were at an acceptable range. The results showed that there was no significant relationship between the participants’ demographic characteristics and their marital satisfaction. There was also no significant difference between the male and female participants in terms of marital satisfaction.

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