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https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v24i1.1362
Youth attitudes toward cohabitation
Gorana Bandalović
orcid.org/0000-0001-6357-1909
; Filozofski fakultet u Splitu
Sažetak
The paper presents the results of an empirical research of youth attitudes toward cohabitation. The study included 825 respondents divided into two subgroups - 717 male and female students of different faculties at the age of 18-30 years and 108 unemployed young people the same age, none of whom was married at the time of the research. The results show that more than a half of the respondents believe that a couple can live together even if they do not intend to get married, that it is advisable to live together before marriage to determine the compliance of future spouses, that cohabitation is not associated with subsequent marital dissatisfaction, infidelity or divorce, that cohabitation is prevalent among people who are more liberal and less religious, and they perceive it as a usual way of starting the first union and as trial marriage. Although the majority of respondents agree with the thesis that cohabitation is a freer way of life than marriage, they do not consider it as "living in sin", which is the best indicator of the openness of young people to alternative family groups and acceptance of premarital cohabitation as a stage of the marriage process. The attitudes of men and women toward cohabitation do not differ significantly, except at the level of individual particles, with women being more prone to considering cohabitation as a trend, as opposed to men for whom cohabitation is definitely a better choice than the single life. The study showed significant differences in the attitudes of students toward cohabitation, depending on the faculty where they study, with the greatest differences expressed by the students of the Catholic Faculty of Theology who express significantly more negative attitudes toward cohabitation than all other students in all tested claims, and the students of the Academy of Arts who have much more positive attitudes toward cohabitation than other students in this study.
Ključne riječi
youth; students; cohabitation; differences
Hrčak ID:
178504
URI
Datum izdavanja:
28.3.2017.
Posjeta: 2.662 *