| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 人類發展與家庭學系 === 98 === The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between 20-39 unmarried adults’ perception of parents’ perspectives toward their children’s mate selection and myths of mate selection. With questionnaire survey and snowball sampling, the study obtained 462 valid samples in total from Taipei city, Taipei County, and Keelung. The instruments of the study include myths of mate selection scale, perception of parents’ perspectives toward their children’s mate selection scale, and the personal information of the samples.
Processed with SPSS12.0 for Windows program running descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Person’s product moment correlation, and multiple hierarchical regression, the results are as followed:
1.General situation
a.Unmarried adults possess more myths of mate selection in “Cohabitation”, “Yuan”, and “Complete Assurance”.
b.Relationship between perception of father’s perspectives toward their children’s mate selection and perception of mother’s perspectives toward their children’s mate selection is highly correlated.
c.Unmarried adults percept that their parents’ perspectives toward children’s mate selection possesses the myth of “Couples who can get married need to have Yuan”.
2.Analysis of myths of mate selection
a.Different gender of unmarried adults lead to significant differences in the aspect of “Cohabitation”, “One and Only”, “Love Is Enough”, “Perfect Partner”, “Complete Assurance”, and “Folk Taboos”.
b.Different age of unmarried adults lead to significant differences in the aspect of “Cohabitation”, “Love Is Enough” , “Complete Assurance”, and “Folk Taboos”.
c.Different education level of unmarried adults bring about significant differences in the aspect of “One and Only”, “Complete Assurance”, and “Folk Taboos”.
d.Unmarried adults with differences of parents’ marital status differ greatly in the aspect of “Yuan”.
e.Different love experiences of unmarried adults result in great differences in the aspect of “Cohabitation” and “Yuan”.
f.Socio-economic status of family has a significantly negative correlation with unmarried adults’ “Folk Taboos”.
3.Results of multiple hierarchical regression of unmarried adults’ myths of mate selection
a.Perception of parents’ perspectives toward their children’s mate selection is notably correlated to “One and Only”, “Love Is Enough”, “Yuan”, “Opposite Complement”, “Perfect Partner”, “Complete Assurance”, and “Folk Taboos”.
b.Gender and love experiences can significantly predict “Cohabitation”.
c.Gender, education level, and perception of parents’ perspectives toward their children’s mate selection can significantly predict “One and Only”.
d.Gender, parents’ marital status, and perception of parents’ perspectives toward their children’s mate selection can significantly predict “Love Is Enough”.
e.Parents’ marital status, love experiences, and perception of parents’ perspectives toward their children’s mate selection can significantly predict “Yuan”.
f.Gender and perception of parents’ perspectives toward their children’s mate selection can significantly predict “Perfect Partner”.
g.Age and perception of parents’ perspectives toward their children’s mate selection can significantly predict “Complete Assurance”.
h.Gender, parents’ marital status, and perception of parents’ perspectives toward their children’s mate selection can significantly predict “Folk Taboos”.
i.Perception of parents’ perspectives toward their children’s mate selection can mostly affect the myths of “Folk Taboos”, but have no significant effects toward the myths of “Cohabitation”.
Suggestions are made according to the results shown above for unmarried adults, premarital education, parenting education, school education, and further studies.
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