Attitudes of Kuwaiti Young Adults toward Marriage and Divorce:

Abstract

This study investigates whether parental marital status affects young adults’ attitudes toward marriage and divorce. There exists a vast amount of literature on the impact of divorce on young adults in Western cultures; however, no previous empirical studies have been conducted on the attitudes of young adults from intact and divorced families in the Gulf region or in Arab countries in the Middle East. The sample of the study consisted of 661 young adults from Kuwait University (from divorced and intact families). The findings reveal that adults whose parents divorced show fewer positive attitudes toward marriage than do those individuals from intact marriages. The study also suggests that adults whose parents were divorced carry more positive attitudes toward divorce compared with individuals from intact marriages. Furthermore, gender was found to be an important factor in shaping attitudes toward marriage and divorce. A longitudinal study is recommended to look at the changes in young adults’ attitudes toward marriage and divorce over time, which will help to identify the influence of other factors of attitudes toward marriage and divorce.

Marital attitude mahasiswa ditinjau dari kondisi pernikahan orang tua

“…Telah ditemukan beberapa penelitian yang menyatakan bahwa terdapat perbedaan sikap pernikahan antara anak-anak dengan orang tua yang telah bercerai dan utuh (Alqashan & Alkandari, 2010;Huang & Lin, 2014;Miles & Servaty-Seib, 2010;Nabila & Aditya, 2022).…”

Sikap Terhadap Pernikahan Ditinjau Dari Kondisi Pernikahan Orang Tua

“…Penelitian terdahulu mengenai perbedaan sikap pernikahan antara seseorang yang memiliki orang tua bercerai dan utuh telah banyak ditemukan. (Alqashan & Alkandari, 2010;Huang & Lin, 2014;Miles & Servaty-Seib, 2010;Nabila & Aditya, 2022). Walaupun demikian dimungkinkan bahwa sikap negatif terhadap pernikahan bukan hanya ditentukan oleh status pernikahan orang tua (bercerai vs utuh).…”

Associations of Quality of Family Communication and Well-Being with Marital Attitudes among Turkish Emerging Adults

“…Barr and Simons (2018) argued that the most important factor among those that are believed to develop young people's marital beliefs may be the family of origin. In previous studies (Alqashan & Alkandari, 2010;Ellison et al, 2011;Huang & Lin, 2014;Jennings et al 1992;Sassler et al, 2009;Shimkowski et al, 2018), the relationship between family structure and marital attitudes has been examined. In their study with young Kuwaiti people, Alqashan and Alkandari (2010) determined that those with intact parents had more positive marital attitudes compared to those with divorced parents.…”

“…In previous studies (Alqashan & Alkandari, 2010;Ellison et al, 2011;Huang & Lin, 2014;Jennings et al 1992;Sassler et al, 2009;Shimkowski et al, 2018), the relationship between family structure and marital attitudes has been examined. In their study with young Kuwaiti people, Alqashan and Alkandari (2010) determined that those with intact parents had more positive marital attitudes compared to those with divorced parents. Huang and Lin (2014) revealed that Taiwanese young people with intact parents had more positive attitudes compared to young people whose parents were divorced.…”