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Predictors of Met and Unmet Marital Timing Desires

Brown, Rachel R
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1776-1714
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429175985

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2015, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Human Ecology: Human Development and Family Science.
According to the Theory of Planned Behavior, intentions drive actions to meet desires. Even with the recent changes in the marital landscape most adolescents and emerging adults desire to marry, and many already have an ideal marriage age in mind. However, barriers, both actual and psychological, may lead individuals to marry earlier or later than they had originally desired, and off-time marriage could have consequences for subsequent relationship stability and mental health. This study examined possibly barriers in three categories—socioeconomic, family background and formation, and minority status—to meeting marital timing desires using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort (NLSY79). Maximum-likelihood discrete-time event history analysis models revealed that family background and formation and minority status were indeed associated with off-time marriage. Lower socioeconomic status did not predict off-time marriage, but rather predicted remaining unmarried.
Claire Kamp Dush, PhD (Advisor)
Zhenchao Qian, PhD (Committee Member)
Anastasia Snyder, PhD (Committee Member)
48 p.
Families and Family Life; Personal Relationships

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  • Brown, R. R. (2015). Predictors of Met and Unmet Marital Timing Desires [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429175985

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brown, Rachel. Predictors of Met and Unmet Marital Timing Desires. 2015. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429175985.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brown, Rachel. "Predictors of Met and Unmet Marital Timing Desires." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429175985

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