結婚？不結婚？年輕成人的結婚意向：父母婚姻關係、代間關係與婚姻態度的影響
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2021
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華人的傳統文化中，成家立業是人生必經歷程。然而隨著社會變遷，臺灣的初婚年齡提高、適婚的年輕成人中未婚比例相較於以往顯著較高，「結婚」似乎已不是年輕成人的必然選擇，究竟什麼因素影響年輕成人的結婚意向？綜觀相關研究，個體的婚姻態度以及成長歷程中經歷的家庭經驗是主要的研究關注，父母婚姻關係所產生的代間傳遞作用，以及成年子女與父母的代間連帶之影響，皆被視為是關鍵。本研究旨在以年輕成人為對象，探討其結婚意向如何受到父母婚姻關係、成年初期代間關係和婚姻態度的影響。本研究運用「台灣青少年成長歷程研究」（Taiwan Youth Project, TYP）長期縱貫調查資料，聚焦於未婚年輕成人，串聯第一階段的青少年調查和第二階段的成年期調查資料進行分析，最終選取樣本1,083人。研究結果顯示：有12%表示不想結婚、40%表示想結婚，而有將近一半比例的年輕成人（48%）表示還沒想過要結婚，其中，父母離婚者，比較可能「還沒想過」要結婚，父母維持婚姻而衝突程度高者，傾向於「不想結婚」。此外，成年前期父母維持婚姻而衝突程度高的年輕成人，在成年初期時，和父母的負向互動較高、較可能抱持「婚姻現代觀」，進而傾向「不想結婚」。
In the traditional Chinese culture, individuals must go through “having a family and settling down” (cheng jia li ye). However, as the society changes, in Taiwan, the age at first marriage has increased and the proportion of unmarried young adults who are eligible for marriage is significantly higher than before. What factors affect young adults’ intention toward marriage? Overviewing the relevant literature, individual’s attitudes toward marriage is one of the main research concerns. Furthermore, the intergenerational transmission effect of the parental marital relationships and the intergenerational solidarity between adult children and their parents are regarded as the key as well. The aim of the current study is to investigate how young adults’ intention toward marriage is affected by their parents’ marital relationships, intergenerational relationships, and their attitudes toward marriage in early adulthood. This study employs both the first and second phases of data that has been collected for the Taiwan Youth Project (TYP), focusing on unmarried young adults. The final sample size is 1,083. For young adults in this study, 12% said they did not want to get married, 40% showed they wanted to get married, and nearly half of (48%) expressed they had not thought about getting married. Among them, those who from divorced families were more likely to “haven’t thought about getting married”, and those who from high conflict intact families were prone to “don’t want to get married.” In addition, when young adults’ families are intact and high conflict in early adulthood, they would have a higher negative interaction with their parents and are more likely to hold a liberal and non-traditional view of marriage in emerging adulthood, and then tend to “don’t want to get married” in their adulthood.
In the traditional Chinese culture, individuals must go through “having a family and settling down” (cheng jia li ye). However, as the society changes, in Taiwan, the age at first marriage has increased and the proportion of unmarried young adults who are eligible for marriage is significantly higher than before. What factors affect young adults’ intention toward marriage? Overviewing the relevant literature, individual’s attitudes toward marriage is one of the main research concerns. Furthermore, the intergenerational transmission effect of the parental marital relationships and the intergenerational solidarity between adult children and their parents are regarded as the key as well. The aim of the current study is to investigate how young adults’ intention toward marriage is affected by their parents’ marital relationships, intergenerational relationships, and their attitudes toward marriage in early adulthood. This study employs both the first and second phases of data that has been collected for the Taiwan Youth Project (TYP), focusing on unmarried young adults. The final sample size is 1,083. For young adults in this study, 12% said they did not want to get married, 40% showed they wanted to get married, and nearly half of (48%) expressed they had not thought about getting married. Among them, those who from divorced families were more likely to “haven’t thought about getting married”, and those who from high conflict intact families were prone to “don’t want to get married.” In addition, when young adults’ families are intact and high conflict in early adulthood, they would have a higher negative interaction with their parents and are more likely to hold a liberal and non-traditional view of marriage in emerging adulthood, and then tend to “don’t want to get married” in their adulthood.
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年輕成人, 結婚意向, 父母婚姻關係, 代間關係, 婚姻態度, young adult, intention toward marriage, parental marital relationships, intergenerational relationships, attitudes toward marriage