• 한국가족관계학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.201-228
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• 2018

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to classify never-married types of adult men and women and explore factors related to these types. Never-married types were categorized into 4 types according to continuity and voluntariness: continuous voluntary type; changed voluntary type; continuous non-voluntary type; and changed non-voluntary type. Factors related to types of being single were examined in terms of socio-demographic factors, individual and psychological factors (self-esteem, depression), dating relationship factors (current relationship status), original family factors (parental conflict, relationship with parents, parents' demand for marriage), marriage related factors (division of roles after marriage), and occupation related factors (work values, employment instability). Method: As for research method, a survey was conducted with never-married adult men and women between the ages of 35 and 49 living in Seoul, Gyeonggi or Incheon areas. Of 300 copies of questionnaire distributed, data from 295 copies were processed using SPSS 24.0 program for multinomial logit analysis. Results: The study results showed that, of never-married men respondents, continuous voluntary type accounted for 20.5%; changed voluntary type 18.9%; continuous non-voluntary type 49.6%; and changed non-voluntary type 11.0%. It was found that the factors related to continuous non-voluntary type among never-married men are age, religion, average monthly income, while the factors related to changed voluntary type are religion, self-esteem, depression, and frequency and strength of parental conflict, while the factor related to changed non-voluntary type men was living with parents. Examining never-married women respondents, it was found that, continuous voluntary type accounted for 33.9%; changed non-voluntary type 19.6%; continuous non-voluntary type 22.6%; and changed voluntary type 23.8%. The factor related to continuous non-voluntary type among never-married women was parents' demand for marriage, while the factors related changed voluntary type were age, depression and strength of parental conflict. Also, the factors related to changed non-voluntary type of never-married women were age, religion, living with parents, depression and parents' demand for marriage. Conclusion: In conclusion, it was found that continuous non-voluntary type formed the largest group among never-married men, whereas continuous voluntary type was the majority in never-married women. Both never-married men and women chose to remain single when they are living with their parents and their parental conflict is intense. Parents' demand for marriage was related to women, but not to men.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.177-193
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• 2014

In this study, we investigated the effect of family values and the resource factors provided by parents on marriage intention among men and women in their 30s and 40s who have never married. The study participants were 300 never-married men and women in their 30s and 40s living in Seoul and its suburbs. The participants were chosen via purposive sampling. The study results are follows. First, according to the analysis of the subjects' family values and the resource factors provided by parents, both family values and the resource provided factors by parents showed higher scores than the median. Subjects had higher scores than the median score in regards to marriage intention, indicating that they had a greater intention to marry. Second, a multiple regression analysis was conducted to identify the effect of the socio-demographic characteristics of subjects, family values, and the resource factors provided by parents on marriage intention. As a result, age, the need of marriage and gender-role attitudes prevalent in family values, and the economic resources among the resource factors provided by parents had significant effects on marriage intention. Thus, the older the age of the subjects, the more traditional the view of marriage and gender-role attitudes, and the greater the amount of economic resources provided by parents, the greater the subjects' intention to marry.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.51-59
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• 1992

Previous studies indicated that unmarried persons are subject to higher mortality than the married, and that the differentials are more marked for male than for females. There are two major approaches to explaining the marital status differentials in mortality ; selection function and protection function of marriage. Following protection fucntion, this study develops the new "instrumental / expressive sex-role" hypothesis in order to explain why marriage protects males more against death. The hypothesis expects that male's instrumental role and female's expressive role have direct effect as well as indirect effect through social integration on sex differential mortality by marital status. for the hypothesis testing, Korea and US vital statistics and census data are used to compute age-specific , age-adjusted mortality rates and their ratios for persons in different marital status. Major findings are as follows. 1)For both Korea and US being married is more advantageous to males than females, ad being widowed, divorced, and separated is more disadvantageous to males, while being never-married is more disadvantageous to females, 2) For Korea, the never married men and women have the highest mortality rates, 3) For US the never married women have the highest mortality rate, while the divorced, separated, and widowed men have the highest mortality rate. Fro both Korea and US data, selection function is rejected, but instrumental/expressive sex-role hypothesis succeeds in accounting for the sex and marital status differential in mortality.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.63-79
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that influence the willingness to marriage initiation(WMI) among the never married in their 30s. In particular, we examine the effect of financial resources on the WMI. A data set from the National Survey of Marriage and Childbirth (2009 Wave) were analyzed. We find that the effect of financial resources on the WMI are different by gender. Home ownership is a statistically significant factor in the logistic regression model for men, but not in the model for women. Women with higher earnings are more likely to be single and unemployed men are more likely to be single than employed men. In the Korean societal contexts, these findings support the bi-standard of financial resources between male and female in the marriage market.

• 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.183-214
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• 2017

본 연구목적은 비혼 남녀들을 대상으로 결혼에 대한 생각과 비혼 선택 이유에 대한 심층면접 내용을 분석하여 비혼 선택에 영향을 미치는 심리적 특성에 대해 알아보고자 하였다. 이를 위한 연구방법으로는 장기적으로 결혼의향이 없다고 밝힌 9명의 20대 중반에서 30대 후반 남녀들을 대상으로 심층면접을 실시한 후, 합의적 질적 연구방법(Consensual Qualitative Research: CQR)을 활용하여 결과를 분석하였다. 심층면접 내용을 분석한 결과 2개의 영역, 10의 하위영역, 25개의 범주로 도출되었다. 그 연구결과 첫째, 참여자들은 결혼을 부정적으로 인식하고 있었으며, 결혼에 대한 기대가 없는 것이 아니라 오히려 비현실적인 기대를 가지고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 참여자들의 대부분은 부모의 가부장적인 역할수행에 대해 자녀로서 부정적인 감정을 느끼고 있었으며, 부모처럼 살고 싶지 않음이 나타났다. 또한 자신의 결혼생활을 부모로 부터 분리하여 바라보고 있지 못함도 보고하였다. 셋째, 참여자들의 대부분은 친밀한 대상과의 관계형성에서 어려움을 느끼고 있었으며, 반복되는 관계갈등 패턴으로 인해 배우자나 결혼에 대해 기대를 갖는 것이 더욱 어려웠음이 나타났다. 넷째, 참여자들이 결혼하지 않으려는 선택에 있어 경험 회피적 성향과 개별성 추구 성향이라는 심리적 측면이 나타났다. 참여자들의 대부분은 결혼생활에 대한 실패를 예견하였고, 비혼을 선택함으로써 자신이 예상하는 불편한 감정과 고통들을 사전에 차단하려는 시도임을 보고하였다. 또한 타인과의 연결(연합성)보다 개별성을, 집단적 가치보다 개인적 가치를 더 중요하게 여기고 있음을 보고하였다. 본 연구의 참여자들은 부모나 주변 사람들의 결혼생활에 대해 부정적인 평가를 내리고 있거나 부정적인 영향을 받고 있음을 나타내었다. 이는 비혼의 유형에 있어 소극적 요인에 더 가깝다고 보이는 바, 적극적 비혼 요인에 해당되는 대상들의 특성이 어떠한지 대해 차후의 연구로서 기대해 본다.

• 한국인구학
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.57-70
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• 2006

결혼은 그 자체로서 매우 중요한 주제이기도 하지만 최근에는 저출산의 주요원인으로 언급되면서 학문적 사회적 관심이 증가하고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 결혼에 대한 체계적이고 분석적인 연구는 아직 미흡한 실정이다. 이 연구는 <2005년도 전국 결혼 및 출산 동향조사>자료를 이용해 미혼남녀의 결혼의향을 분석하고 있다. 미혼남녀전체를 대상으로 로짓회귀분석을 실시한 결과, 이들의 인구학적 특성, 경제상황, 가구 및 가족특성, 성과 혼전동거에 대한 태도 등이 통제된 상황에서도 남성보다는 여성에게서 결혼을 하겠다는 비율이 낮게 나타났다. 한편 남녀별 로짓회귀분석의 결과에 의하면 취업, 가구형태, 성과 혼전동거태도 등의 효과가 성에 따라 다르게 나타났다. 취업의 경우, 미혼남성의 결혼의향은 높이지만, 미혼여성에게서는 유의미한 효과를 보이지 않고 있다. 이 같은 결과는 여성의 경제적 기반과 결혼에 대한 두 가지 주요 이론인 경제독립가설과 경력진입모형 모두와 거리가 있는 것이다. 한편, 독립가구거주와 성 및 혼전동거에 대한 개방적 태도의 효과는 미혼남성에게 발견되지 않지만 미혼여성에서는 부정적인 것으로 나타난다. 성에 따른 이상의 변수들의 차별적인 효과는 미혼에서 결혼으로 이행하는 과정과 동기가 성에 따라 다르게 작동함을 의미한다. 따라서 결혼에 관한 이론적 논의와 경험적 연구에서 이러한 남녀간 차별성이 반영될 필요성이 있다.

• 한국가족관계학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.3-25
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• 2017

Objectives: We examined which socioeconomic and intergenerational characteristics were associated with the level of intention to marry among Korean men and women in young adulthood. Method: Data came from 351 men and 391 women who were 25-34 years old, had never been married, and had at least one living parent. We conducted multiple regression analyses by gender after controlling for age and current romantic relationship. Results: Among the socioeconomic characteristics, more years of education was linked to both men's and women's higher levels of intention to marry. For women, having a secure, full-time job was related to greater intention to marry. For men, the higher their subjective socioeconomic status, the greater their intention to marry. Among intergenerational characteristics, both men's and women's positive attitudes toward supporting elderly parents were related to a higher level of intention to marry. For men, the frequency of providing instrumental support for their parents was negatively associated with the men's intention to marry. For women, higher levels of agreement with parents' responsibility to support their adult children as well as greater affection for their parents were positively related to greater intention to marry. Conclusions: The findings suggest that young adults' socioeconomic resources and the family context are important predictors of young adults' marital intentions. The results also reveal gender differences in the factors associated with young adults' marital intentions.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.13-26
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• 1975

Seven aspects of attitude toward marriage in Korea are examined to better understand present and future marriage patterns. Also, various facets of current marriage practice are compared with attitudes. The study comprises three groups of roughly 600 women each, selected by random sampling from a rural, an urban, and a semi-urban area. A carefully designed and pretested questionnaire was checked for reliability by a reinterview in a 15% subsample. The great majority of Korean women support traditional attitudes that one must or should marry. The small group who recommend that one should not marry are mostly the very young or the never married, whose attitudes still may change. However, there are important and probably predictive shifts in favor of more individual decision, especially among the better educated, the young, and the more urban. Traditional reasons for marriage such as "custom" and procreation are ranked first by a majority, but there is a large shift to more contemporary or liberal desire for companionship and love, also primarily among the better educated, the urban, the young, and the never married. The traditional attitude that parents should have the sole or major role in mate selection is still held by a bare majority; the educated, urban, young, and never married are more liberal. Only 6% opt for each of the two extremes: That the parent alone or the respondent alone should decide. The remainder prefer one of the two middle-of-the-road positions where parent and child together decide. The proportions of respondents who classed specified criteria as moat important for selecting a husband, arranging the criteria in order from traditional to contemporary were: Lineage, etc., 23%; personal attributes, 40%; health and education, 27%; and love, 10%. The changing attitudes are suggested by the fact that love was ranked first by only 3% of the poorly educated rural poulation versus 23% of urban college level and 31% of the urban never married. There has been a substantial rise in the ideal age of marriage over the past twelve or more years, but there also is evidence that the ideal age is at or near a ceiling. Knowledge about legal age of marriage is minimal; the implications of this for proposed legislation are discussed. Three-fifthes to four-fifths of all respondents married husbands of the same religious, residential, and economic backgrounds as themselves. Almost all of them married men of the same or higher educational level. These evidences of traditional influences in mate selection are contrasted with the low priority given some of those items in earlier questions on reasons for marriage and criterion for selecting husband. Contrary to the expressed attitudes as to who should select the husband, we find that marriages of the study sample were stated to be arranged by parents alone in 62%; and in another 23%, the parents made the decision but asked the respondent's views. Such arrangements were most frequent among the rural, the less educated, and the older respondents and less common in the urban and more educated. The implications of these and related findings are discussed.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제61권2호
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• pp.183-194
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• 2023

The purpose of this study was to examine how sociodemographic status, family-related influences, and perceived future economic prospects were associated with the possibility of getting married and having children in a sample of 607 single young Korean adults. The sample comprised unmarried men and women in their 20s and 30s taken from the 2021 Seoul Family Report survey, and descriptive statistical and multiple regression analyses were conducted on the data. The results indicated that age, non-traditional marriage/childbearing values, parents' marital relationship during childhood, and the prospect of having a stable job and owning a home were significantly related to the possibility of marriage. With regard to the possibility of having children, a significant relationship was found with age, level of education, non-traditional marriage/childbearing values, recognition of the importance of family, parents' marital relationship during childhood, and the prospect of having a stable job and owning a home. The study also examined the importance of policies that make the possibility of marriage and having children more appealing to young unmarried adults in Korea by providing a positive outlook for the economy, a sense of stability, and a supportive approach to the value of having a family.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.220-224
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• 2004

Objectives : To investigate the sexual behavioral characteristics and HIV/AIDS knowledge among men who have sex with men(MSM), one of the HIV high risk groups. Methods : A three month survey among individuals who were able to be contacted was carried out over the entire Republic of Korea, between May and August, 2001. 348 individuals completed a self-administered question-naire. The data collected included demographic informa-tion, sexual behavior and AIDS knowledge. Results : Eighty-seven and ninety-two per cent of the 348 MSM were aged 20-39 years and had never been married, respectively. Fifty-five per cent of participants reported at least one sexual contact with women, and a quarter of the MSM surveyed had engaged in high-risk sexual behavior (more than 6 partners) during the previous year. About twenty per cent of the MSM had anal sex as their favorite way of having sex, and seventy-four per cent did not use condoms regularly due to loss of enjoyment, and were more likely to be engaged in risky behaviors. Only ten per cent had a regular HIV test history, and most had obtained knowledge or information on HIV/AIDS through the mass media. Conclusions : A large proportion of the MSM in Korea still remain at an elevated risk for contracting HIV infection. Change in high-risk sexual behaviors will prevent the spread of HIV infection among the MSM population, which requires public health education for preventive interventions, and should be culturally and socially specific in order to be effective.