Would the child tend to have a negative view of the idea of marriage if his/her parents had been divorced? If the parents stayed married, would the child still be hopeful for their own marriage? I am interested in knowing how America’s young people regard the concept of marriage. I want to know if people still believe that marriage should last a lifetime. It seems more likely that people who had witnessed their parent’s difficult marriage/divorce have a more negative view of marriage, or be more cautious when approaching marriage. Although most of my subjects are relatively young and are not likely to have been married yet, I can analyze their attitude on the marriage that they may or may not be hopeful for in the future.
The 35 participants of this survey were students from SCC. My questionnaire was comprised of two main sections. The first four questions were of age, gender, and if they had been married and divorced. The second part asked a series of questions that asked about attitudes on marriage, and their parents’ divorce, parents’ marriage, and personal feelings. I formulated a total of 11 questions:
1) Gender:MaleFemale
2) Age: _____ years old
3) Married:YesNo
4) Divorced:YesNo
5) Marriage is an event that I look to: Agree Disagree
6) I have no desire to get married: Agree Disagree
7) I would turn to my parents for advice on marriage: Agree Disagree
8) I believe marriage should last for life: Agree Disagree
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9) Have your parents:
a) never married each other b) divorced and neither parent has remarried
c) divorced each other once and one or both parent has remarried
d) divorced more than once e) never been divorced
10) Thinking about marriage makes me feel:
a) fearful/gloomy b) happy/excited
11) Your original parents’ marriage is;
a) affectionate b) dysfunctional
** A result will use alpha equal to 0.05 in my experiments.
Out of the 35 participants, 12(34.4%) were male, and 23(65.7%) were female. The mean age was 18.66, with a standard deviation of 1.03. None of the participants had been divorced, and only one was married. The majority of the respondents (66.6%) said their parents had never been divorced, and a similar percentage (65.7%) of the parents were thought to have an affectionate marriage.
The distribution of scores indicates that most of the students (97.2%) look forward to marriage. All of the students had some desire to get married. Students also agreed (100%) that marriage should last a lifetime. Plans for turning to parents for advice on marriage had the participants more divided in their responses. Gender was significant(=0.038) with turning to parents for advice. The positive correlation and a comparison of the means show the females agreed more that they would turn to their parents for marriage advice. A positive correlation(r=0.379) occurred between the responses for “I would turn to my parents for advice on marriage” and ““I believe marriage should last for life.” Also, males tended to not to choose “affectionate” to describe their parents’ marriage as much as the females did. Other statistically significant results that were found were for more obvious results; for example, a positive correlation between looking forward to marriage and having happy feelings about marriage.
Most students appeared to have a positive outlook on marriage. The high percentage of students who have parents that have never been divorced believe that marriage should last a lifetime. And there is not sufficient evidence to show that people who had witnessed their parent’s difficult marriage/divorce have a more negative view of marriage, or be more cautious when approaching marriage. The biggest problem I can think of in this survey was that it was too small sample size. I would like to reexamine the data with a sample size of one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand students. Age and gender seemed to have reference to certain questions. Females were more likely to turn to their parents for marriage advice, and to describe their parents’ marriage as affectionate.
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Some traditional thoughts on marriage have not really changed much. If my study is representing the general population, most people still believe that marriage should last a lifetime, and that marriage is an event to look forward to. But again, different factors probably did affect my results, such as the sample size and the lack of random sampling.
