Ideas About Marriage Depending on the Structure of Valuable Orientations of Women in Early Adulthood

Abstract

"The phenomenon of marriage is one of the little-studied questions of family psychology. The resolution of the contradiction between the need of modern society to form complete and adequate ideas about the marital role among students and the need to identify socio-psychological factors that influence the development of ideas about marriage determines the problem of research. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of ideas about marriage (Ideal husband, Ideal wife) depending on the structure of valuable orientations of young women in early adulthood. Methods of research. Theoretical and methodological literature analysis, questionnaire, psycho-diagnostic methods (the questionnaire “A Value and Availability Ratio in Various Vital Spheres Technique” by E.B. Fantalova, the method of Semantic Differential, developed by Charles E. Osgood, projective technique of ""Incomplete Sentences"", the questionnaire ""Role Expectations and Claims in Marriage"" by A. N. Volkova); mathematical and statistical data processing methods. During the analytical stage we used mathematical and statistical methods that allowed us to establish the reliability of the research results. All calculations were performed using the IBM SPSS Statistics 21 computer program. The analysis included descriptive statistics, cluster analysis (K-means method), Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for one sample, Shapiro-Wilkes criterion, and correlation analysis. The study involved 310 female students in age from 20 to 22 from Astrakhan State University and the Astrakhan Branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. It was found that among young female students 45 people (14.5 %) are focused on the values of professional self-realization, 59 people (19 %) are focused on gnostic and aesthetic values, and 206 people (66.5 %) are focused on the values of personal happiness. The results showed that the concepts of marriage have both common features and specific features due to the influence of the structure of valuable orientations of the respondents. Ideas about marriage are characterized by fragmentary formation of emotional and behavioral components, in some cases the presence of cognitive distortions. The obtained results actualize the importance and necessity of psychological and pedagogical support of the process of family self-determination of students, the formation of complete and adequate ideas about marriage in the conditions of the educational environment of the university."

The Relationship of Valuable Orientation and Ideas about Marriage Among Women in Early Adulthood

“…So, the obtained results show that the structure of valuable orientations is associated with the content characteristics of ideas about marriage among young women in early adulthood. The results of the study are consistent with our data obtained in an earlier study on a sample of young students, which shows that the structure of valuable orientations determines the peculiarities of ideas about marriage among young men in adolescence and early adulthood (Merzlyakova, Golubeva, & Bibarsova, 2020). However, a comparative analysis shows that the ideas of an ideal husband and an ideal wife do not coincide among young men and young women with the same structure of valuable orientations.…”

“…The image of their own father is a guide in the formation of ideas about ideal husband only for young women who are focused on the values of personal life. A comparative analysis with our data obtained in an earlier study on a sample of young students (Merzlyakova, Golubeva, & Bibarsova, 2020) indicates that the content characteristics of the "Ideal Husband" image do not coincide among young men and women who are focused on the values of professional self-realization and the values of personal life. Other authors obtained the similar results in their studies: they recorded gender differences in the ideas of parenthood among high school students (Zakharova et al, 2019).…”

“…Young women who are focused on the values of personal life in the image "Ideal wife" there are additional elements of emotional (positive attitude towards family as a social institution, towards their own family, towards the future marriage partner, towards romantic love, towards family recreation and leisure, negative attitude towards family conflicts) and behavioral components (external attractiveness). A comparison of the data obtained with the results of an earlier empirical study of the ideas about marriage among young men (Merzlyakova, Golubeva, & Bibarsova, 2020) indicates that the content and hierarchy of qualities of the image of an ideal wife among young men and young women with the same structure of valuable orientations do not coincide.…”

Value Orientations as a Factor in the Development of Ideas About Marriage Among Adolescent Women

“…For adolescent young women with a focus on the values of professional self-realization, the image of "Ideal husband" reveals elements of cognitive, emotional and behavioral components. Earlier research in this area has shown that the idea of an ideal husband in early adulthood is limited to the content characteristics of the cognitive and emotional components (Merzlyakova & Golubeva, 2021). If in adolescence the ideas of an ideal wife among young women have elements of cognitive and behavioral components, then in early adulthood, only the cognitive component is formed.…”

Ideas About the Ideal Marriage Partner Depending on the Moral Orientation

“…The image of the ideal wife among young women focused on gnostic and aesthetic values is characterized by the presence of cognitive distortions which are manifested in a negative attitude towards the family as a social institution, the low importance of parental and educational functions and the role of the mother (Merzlyakova & Golubeva, 2021). At the same time the importance of such a parameter of morality as a moral orientation of the personality for the development of ideas about an ideal marriage partner has not been investigated.…”