Marriage, which includes the coupling of two people possessing different interests, desires and needs, is a special association given shape by social rules and laws and significantly affects individuals' development and self-realizations (Ersanli & Kalkan, 2008). Functions such as meeting the need for love and being loved, meeting both individuals' biological, social, psychological and motivational needs, bringing new generations to world, gaining a place in society, the feelings of being safe and protected, the sense of cooperation, being confident about the future, feeling proud of each other and healthy functioning of sexual life (Canel, 2012) make marriage universal and significant for societies. Although its dimensions and contents have changed during human history, the institutions of family and marriage have maintained their universality and are still the core unit of societies (Ozguven, 2001). In many societies, marriage is acknowledged as the institution in which intimacy and fellowship exists and also children are raised in safety and that allows individuals to have sexual intercourse and provides an emotional development opportunity (Yavuzer, 2012). Although the institution of marriage has started to transform into a structure in which equality dominates, today when the number of divorces has risen, the understanding towards the structure of marriage and the relationships between spouses have gained greater importance (Celik, 2006). Because considerable efforts have been made to determine the differences between happy and consistent marriages and those that are not (Hall, 2006). Thus, many studies conducted in Turkey and abroad have focused on effective factors in mate selection (Bozgeyikli & Toprak, 2013; Bugay & Tezer, 2008; Efe, 2013; Kilic, Kaygusuz, Bag, & Tortumluoglu, 2007; Shackelford, Schmitt, & Buss, 2005; Yildirim, 2007; Zhang & Kline, 2009); marital adjustment (Gaur & Bhardwaj, 2015; Khalili, 2013; Mir, Wani, & Sankar, 2016; Sabre, 2016; TutarelKiclak & Cabukca, 2002), the variables predicting marital satisfaction (Carandang & Guda, 2015; Cag & Yildirim, 2013; Gadassi et al., 2016; Lavner, Karney, & Bradbury, 2016; Rosen-Grandon, Myers, & Hattie, 2004), the relationship between financial satisfaction and decision to pursue marriage (Archuleta, Britt, Tonn, & Grable, 2011); the secrets of a long term, happy relationships (Bachand & Caron, 2001), happy and permanent marriages (Marks et al., 2008), the role expectations of spouses from each other (Botkin, Weeks, & Morris, 2000; Kaufman & Goldscheider, 2007; Sterrett & Bollman, 1970), and marriage expectations (Crissey, 2005; GibsonDavis, Edin, & Mclanahan, 2005). These studies conducted with married couples and university students. The researches which studied married couples aimed to provide support to the effort to decrease marital problems and to increase satisfaction in current relationships, while the findings of those conducted with university students were thought to contribute to psychological counselors and mental health workers delivering family and marriage counseling services to university students. University students are accepted as an important group in that they experience romantic relations intensely which is thought to provide them with opinions about issues like partners' adjustment to each other and relationship satisfaction. In related literature, this period is defined as the emergent adulthood stage and it is of critical importance to establish and maintain romantic relationships during this transition period (Arnett, 2000). It is known that this stage covers the ages between 19 and 26 in Turkey (Atak, 2005). Typically, during this period, adolescents tend to postpone developmental tasks such as marrying, having children, completing education and living in their own house, to the end of twenties (Casper & Bianchi, 2002, as cited in Eryilmaz & Atak, 2011). …