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AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD MARRIAGE
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Martin, Marika Lelang
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1050092611
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2003, Master of Science, Miami University, Family and Child Studies.
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to determine how parental marriage experience influences the romantic attitudes and beliefs toward marriage of young African American adults. The analysis compares the attitudes and beliefs of those whose biological parents are happily married, unhappily married, widowed, separated, diovrced, or never married. This study surveyed 268 African American college students from public and private institutions. This study found that ther was significance in optimism toward marriage among African American college students whose biological parents were happily married. It was founf that perception of control remained the same regardless of parental marital history. Finally, it was found that higher levels of religious commmitment among participants was associated with higher levels of marital expectations, regardless of parent marital history.
Committee
Charles Hennon (Advisor)
Pages
63 p.
Subject Headings
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Keywords
Divorce
;
MARRIAGE
;
happily married
;
biological parents
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Martin, M. L. (2003).
AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD MARRIAGE
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1050092611
APA Style (7th edition)
Martin, Marika.
AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD MARRIAGE.
2003. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1050092611.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Martin, Marika. "AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD MARRIAGE." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1050092611
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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