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Associations Between Career-orientation, Secularism and Gender, and Marital Beliefs and Expectations Among Emerging Adults

Smith, Amadeus
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1578937285536935

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2020, MA, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences.
With significant social and cultural changes, specifically changes surrounding marriage and marriage alternatives, today’s emerging adults’ beliefs and expectations about marriage are unique. Additional research is necessary to improve our understanding of emerging adults’ beliefs and expectations of marriage today. With data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (1994—2008), this study used Pearson and Spearman correlations as well as linear regressions to examine gender differences in marital beliefs and expectations, associations between career-orientation among emerging adults and their beliefs and expectations about marriage, and associations between secularism among emerging adults and marital beliefs and expectations. I also examined whether gender moderates the associations between career-orientation, secularism, and marital beliefs and expectations. The career-orientation metric of choosing marriage or finishing school showed that people focused on career will choose career over marriage if given the ultimatum. The results regarding secularism showed that those identifying as religious and coming from a religious background found marriage to be more important and had greater expectations to be married than other participants. Although there were differences between men and women regarding some variables, they did not differ when it came to the importance placed on having enough money, which could mean men and women approach marriage in a similarly pragmatic way.
Kelly Cichy (Advisor)
64 p.
Gender; Psychology; Religion; Sociology
Marriage, Emerging Adult; Emerging Adulthood, Marital, Expectations, Beliefs, Secularism, Career-orientation, Gender

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  • Smith, A. (2020). Associations Between Career-orientation, Secularism and Gender, and Marital Beliefs and Expectations Among Emerging Adults [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1578937285536935

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Smith, Amadeus. Associations Between Career-orientation, Secularism and Gender, and Marital Beliefs and Expectations Among Emerging Adults . 2020. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1578937285536935.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Smith, Amadeus. "Associations Between Career-orientation, Secularism and Gender, and Marital Beliefs and Expectations Among Emerging Adults ." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1578937285536935

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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