Prevalence and Impact of Demographic Factors and on University Students’ Intentions, Attitudes and Aspects Regarding Marital Relationships

Abstract

Marriage is one of the most significant social institutions, which influence emotional, psychological, and cultural life of people. In the case of the university students who are at the threshold stage between adolescence and adulthood, marital intent, attitudes, and aspects come into play as major determinants of future social roles and family life. The current research analyzes the status of intent, attitude, and aspects of marital relationships among the university students. The purpose of the study was to find prevalence and impact of demographic factors on intent, attitude and aspects regarding marital relationships among university students. The sample included 500 participants (250 males, 250 females) from the age group of 18-30 years old. The study used the Intent to Marry Scale, the General Attitude towards Marriage Scale, and the Aspects of Marriage Scale (Park & Rosén, 2013) to collect data from the participants. Descriptive analysis and Neural network were analyzed to check the results. Findings of the results show that over half of the group (54.4%) demonstrated average feelings about marriage (192- 219), with 22% recording low (<192) and 23.8% recording high (>219) scores. Hence, about a quarter of the students show high intent, attitudes and aspects of marriage relationship. The greatest factors in prediction of intent, attitude and aspects regarding marital relationships were family system (100% normalized importance) followed by education (72% normalized importance), marital status (41.6% normalized importance), age (34.7% normalized importance), social economic status (32.7% normalized importance), and gender (10.8% normalized importance).