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The Purpose of Marriage among Single Malaysian Youth

Marriage is the starting point of family life cycle and the purpose of marriage affects the whole marital life. This study was conducted to explore the purpose of marriage among youth in Malaysia. Data was collected from 10 university students who consented to in-depth interviews. Besides, data was...

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Main Authors: Jamiah, Manap, Arena, Che Kassim, Suzana, Hoesni, Salina, Nen, Fazilah, Idris, Siti Fatihah, Ghazali
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2013
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Q Science (General)
Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6305/1/The_Purpose_of_Marriage_among_Single_Malaysian_Youth.pdf
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6305/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.233
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spelling my.ump.umpir.63052016-01-19T08:08:42Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6305/ The Purpose of Marriage among Single Malaysian Youth Jamiah, Manap Arena, Che Kassim Suzana, Hoesni Salina, Nen Fazilah, Idris Siti Fatihah, Ghazali Q Science (General) Marriage is the starting point of family life cycle and the purpose of marriage affects the whole marital life. This study was conducted to explore the purpose of marriage among youth in Malaysia. Data was collected from 10 university students who consented to in-depth interviews. Besides, data was also gathered from the lists of purposes for marriage taken from 27 undergraduate students. All of them are single and aged between 23 to 34 years old. Three themes emerged from the study: religious motives, biological motives and socio-psychological motives. Religious motive is the main purpose of marriage as marriage performs a legal relationship that follows the guidelines of a religion. Fulfilling human nature to be in pairs, having a family and having a child to continue human legacy become the biological motives of marriage. Meanwhile, mutual love, friendship and happiness become the main socio-psychological motives of marriage. The purpose of marriage is influenced by the individual personal belief, life culture and life expectations. There is the need to conduct more research to investigate the effects of the purpose of marriage to the marriage well-being and family institutions. Elsevier Ltd. 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6305/1/The_Purpose_of_Marriage_among_Single_Malaysian_Youth.pdf Jamiah, Manap and Arena, Che Kassim and Suzana, Hoesni and Salina, Nen and Fazilah, Idris and Siti Fatihah, Ghazali (2013) The Purpose of Marriage among Single Malaysian Youth. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 82. pp. 112-116. ISSN 1877-0428, ESSN: 1877-0428 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.233 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.233
institution Universiti Malaysia Pahang
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language English
topic Q Science (General)
spellingShingle Q Science (General)
Jamiah, Manap
Arena, Che Kassim
Suzana, Hoesni
Salina, Nen
Fazilah, Idris
Siti Fatihah, Ghazali
The Purpose of Marriage among Single Malaysian Youth
description Marriage is the starting point of family life cycle and the purpose of marriage affects the whole marital life. This study was conducted to explore the purpose of marriage among youth in Malaysia. Data was collected from 10 university students who consented to in-depth interviews. Besides, data was also gathered from the lists of purposes for marriage taken from 27 undergraduate students. All of them are single and aged between 23 to 34 years old. Three themes emerged from the study: religious motives, biological motives and socio-psychological motives. Religious motive is the main purpose of marriage as marriage performs a legal relationship that follows the guidelines of a religion. Fulfilling human nature to be in pairs, having a family and having a child to continue human legacy become the biological motives of marriage. Meanwhile, mutual love, friendship and happiness become the main socio-psychological motives of marriage. The purpose of marriage is influenced by the individual personal belief, life culture and life expectations. There is the need to conduct more research to investigate the effects of the purpose of marriage to the marriage well-being and family institutions.
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author Jamiah, Manap
Arena, Che Kassim
Suzana, Hoesni
Salina, Nen
Fazilah, Idris
Siti Fatihah, Ghazali
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Arena, Che Kassim
Suzana, Hoesni
Salina, Nen
Fazilah, Idris
Siti Fatihah, Ghazali
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title The Purpose of Marriage among Single Malaysian Youth
title_short The Purpose of Marriage among Single Malaysian Youth
title_full The Purpose of Marriage among Single Malaysian Youth
title_fullStr The Purpose of Marriage among Single Malaysian Youth
title_full_unstemmed The Purpose of Marriage among Single Malaysian Youth
title_sort purpose of marriage among single malaysian youth
publisher Elsevier Ltd.
publishDate 2013
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6305/1/The_Purpose_of_Marriage_among_Single_Malaysian_Youth.pdf
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