Complex marital paradigms: divergence between the importance of getting married and being married

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI:10.1332/20467435y2023d000000001

Scott S. Hall, David Knox

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Abstract

Marital paradigm theory (MPT) asserts that societal and cultural norms and values contribute to marital beliefs. The current research examines a tenet of MPT that marital salience – a belief about the importance of getting married – and marital centrality – a belief about the importance or weight assigned to the spousal role once married – are related but distinct concepts such that individuals can diverge in their endorsement of each (for example, highly endorse one but not the other). Data from an online, anonymous survey of 4,060 emerging adults were used to group participants into a typology of low salience-low centrality, high salience-high centrality, low salience-high centrality, and high salience-low centrality. Groups were compared across background characteristics and marital meaning beliefs. Several patterns of differences among predictors were identified and discussed in the context of how the high salience-low centrality group compared with the other groups. Overall findings were consistent with MPT.

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复杂的婚姻范式:结婚和结婚的重要性之间的分歧

婚姻范式理论(MPT)认为，社会和文化规范和价值观有助于婚姻信仰。目前的研究检验了MPT的一个原则，即婚姻显著性(婚姻重要性的信念)和婚姻中心性(婚姻角色的重要性或权重的信念)是相互关联但又截然不同的概念，因此个人对两者的认可可能会出现分歧(例如，高度认可其中一个，但不认可另一个)。通过对4060名新生成人进行在线匿名调查，将参与者分为低显著性-低中心性、高显著性-高中心性、低显著性-高中心性、高显著性-低中心性和高显著性-低中心性。各组在背景特征和婚姻意义信念方面进行比较。在高显著性-低中心性组与其他组比较的背景下，确定并讨论了预测因子之间的几种差异模式。总体结果与MPT一致。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.