Adolescents' Attitudes toward Cohabitation and Their Expectations of Marriage

• Main Authors: Wang, Li-Ting, 王莉婷
• Other Authors: Lin, Ju-Ping
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71578467709402116217

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 人類發展與家庭學系 === 100 === The purpose of this study is to investigate the correlations among adolescents’ individual and family backgrounds, their attitudes toward cohabitation and their expectations of marriage. This study adopts the questionnaire survey method. The subjects of the study are senior high school students and vocational high school students in Taiwan. 1300 valid samples are obtained from the survey. The major findings are as follow: 1.The vocational high school students surveyed in the study hold an impartial attitude toward cohabitation. While there is greater acceptance of cohabitation as trial marriage, the idea that cohabitation can substitute for marriage has the lowest degree of acceptance. 2.Cohabitation finds greater acceptance among male vocational high school students who come from a family of lower socio-economic status, do not have religious beliefs, have a monthly allowance of more than 1001 NT dollars, have been in a relationship, and consider their parents’ relationship to be disharmonious, or one of whose parents is deceased. 3.About sixty percent of the subject would want to marry in the future. There is higher preference for marriage among male senior high school students who have religious beliefs, have a monthly allowance of more than 2001 dollars, have been in a relationship, and consider their parents’ relationship to be harmonious, or whose parents are divorced. 4.The high school students’ attitudes toward cohabitation influence their expectations of marriage, and different aspects of their attitudes toward cohabitation have different degrees of influence. For male students who have a monthly allowance of more than 2001 dollars and have been in a relationship, the more they regard cohabitation as trial marriage, the more they would want to marry in the future. For male students who have been in a relationship, the more they agree that cohabitation enhances intimacy, the more they would want to marry in the future. Furthermore, for senior high school students who consider their parents’ relationship to be harmonious, the less they agree that cohabitation can substitute for marriage, the more they would want to marry in the future.