| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 兒童與家庭學系碩士班 === 99 === The purpose of this study is to understand the influences of premarital predictors have on the marital quality of couples who have married for the first three years. This research was first to examine the relationship between “the background and the origin factors” (age at marriage, educational background, parents’ marital relationship, parent-child relationship, the economical status differences of the original families of the spouses, the support from parents and friends on the marriage) and marital quality over three years. As secondly, this research examined the relationship between the marital quality afterward and “the courtship factors” (premarital cohabitation, premarital sexuality, premarital dating time, the reason of getting married and the numbers of boyfriends/girlfriends).
The data of this research came from the longitudinal data of “A Study of the Early Marriage Development in Taiwan I, II, and III” ( NSC89-2412-H-158-001, NSC 90-2412-H-158-001, NSC91-2412-H-158-002 ) , which was funded by National Science Council, Executive Yuan. The population of the research sample was consisted of newlywed couples who had registered their marriage at the household registration office in Taipei from December, 2000 to February, 2001. We took random samples from the population and mailed the questionnaires to them to proceed with a three-year survey. Deducting the samples lost from the follow up tracking, valid samples were 128 newlywed couples.
The results showed that “the background and the origin factors” and “the courtship factors” indeed would affect the marital quality of the couples in their first three years of marriage. For female, those who had their parents approved the marriage, had higher education, and hadn’t had premarital sexual relationship with their spouse would have better marital quality. Comparing the female stepping into marriage due to other reasons, those who “married to fulfill responsibilities” have worse marital quality; comparing the economical status of the original families, those females who had worse economical status of the original family than the men’s at the time when they got married have worse marital quality.
For male, those who had parents and friends showing supportive attitude toward the marriage, had better father-and-son relationship, better economical status of the original family than the bride’s family, no premarital sexuality with other female, and had premarital cohabitation experiences would have better marital quality.
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