30대 기혼남녀의 초혼연령 결정요인 연구 = A Study on the Determinants of Timing at First Marriage - Focused on the Married Men and Women in the Thirties -

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study are to identify and evaluate variables which make their influences on the timing at first marriage and examine how these variables are differed by gender. The data for this study were collected from 196 married males and 187 married females who were born in the 1965 through the 1970 and lived in the metropolitan area around Seoul. All respondents answered by self-report questionnaires. Next, these dada were described by using frequency, percentile, mean and standard variation and were analyzed by using hierarchical multiple regression. The major variables are as follows: First, the variables to make influences on the timing at first marriage were duration of employment, job classifications, income, and education as a social demographic variables. There were no gender differences. Second, the variable to make influences on the women`s timing at first marriage as marriage-value related variables was the attitude to marriage. However, there were no significant marriage-value related variables to make influences on the men`s timing at damage. Third, among the family related variables, the variable to make an influence on the women`s timing at marriage was a parental socio-economic status, whereas the variable for men was a parental existence. This study showed that for men the most important factor to determine the marriage timing was the economic conditions and abilities and for women the economic conditions and attitude to marriage was important. Hence, this study was useful to explain the reasons of the rising pattern of marriage age in Korea.