Factors Affecting Single Parents' Remarriage Intention
| Autor: | Jia-Ling Guo, 郭家玲 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 100 Along with the growth of single parent families for the past decades, the intention of remarriage became an issue for their social adjustment of post single parenthood. In the past, extensive studies focused on how difficult the remarriage conditions would be and how complicated the stepfamilies would encounter. Little is known about what kind of factors would affect single parents’ intention of remarriage. Following the thinking of the remarriage market model proposed by De Graaf and Kalmijn in 2003, this study intends to examine how three sets of factors, social integration, economic conditions, and cultural traits, would affect single parents’ remarriage intention. Taking a quantitative approach, the study surveyed single parents from welfare agencies or social clubs using a structured questionnaire. Two hundred and fifty-eight widowed or divorced parents (still caring for unmarried children) were purposively sampled. In this study, logistic regression analysis was used to examine how the three sets of factors predict the intention to remarry. Results indicated that over half of interviewees expressed low possibility of remarrying in recent future, but over 60% of them would be likely to remarry eventually in their lifetime. It showed that the remarriage intention is more likely to happen if it is not in recent future. The study also found that more social contact and working would increase the probabilities of their remarriage intention. However, beside of two above-mentioned factors, age of youngest child, more leisure activity participation would also increase the probabilities of their lifetime remarriage intention. Implications were included in this study. Some suggestions are recommended to single parents personally if they have remarriage intention in the future. And other suggestions are included for social organizations serving single parents if they intends to promote remarriage among single parents. In conclusion, Whether single parents intend to remarry or not, we/the public should respect and believe their choices made appropriately by their own. |
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