Marital Name Change: Plans and Attitudes of College Students

Scheuble, Laurie K.; Johnson, David Read

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“…The best that we can do is to compare our findings to previous studies conducted at other colleges and universities. In a 1990 random sample of students at a small residential college in the Midwest, 81.6% of female students planned to take their husband's last name, if they married, and 7% planned to hyphenate their name [19]. These percentages are very close to the percentages for female students in our sample, in which 81.4% planned to take their husband's last name and 9.0% planned to hyphenate.…”

Section: Marital Naming Planssupporting

confidence: 67%

“…College campuses are popular sites for studying marital naming patterns [12,19,22]. College serves as a formative setting in which a young person sharpens long-term goals and preferences related to work and family [34].…”

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“…Gender, ethnicity, education, and gender role ideology consistently appear as influences on marital naming choices [7,8,10,11,14,[17][18][19][20][21][22]. Only a handful of studies on marital naming considers religion, and even fewer employ more than one or two religion variables.…”

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Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges

2014

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Despite increasingly egalitarian gender roles in the United States, when the wedding bells ring for heterosexual couples, husband and wife still commonly emerge sharing the man's last name. Largely missing from previous studies of marital name change is the influence of religion. We examine the marital naming plans of 199 students from four Evangelical colleges. Nearly all these students planned to marry and more than 80% planned to follow the traditional naming pattern for their gender. Bivariate correlations and logistic regression models reveal that private prayer and more literal views of the Bible correspond to plans for a traditional marital surname. Yet, only a small minority of students evoked religious language to justify their surname choice. Gender roles, identity, and tradition were dominant themes in their explanations. Whether recognized or not, personal religiosity and the model of marriage cultivated in religious families guide the marital naming intentions of Evangelical students. Thus, religion operates as an invisible influence shaping ideals of marriage and family within Evangelical subculture.

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“…Prior research shows that women participate in marital name changing because of tradition, family values and pressure from society (Blakemore, Lawton & Vartanian, 2005;Scheuble & Johnson, 1993). Several studies have reported that marital name changing is more likely for women with lower levels of education (Gooding & Kreider, 2010;Hoffnung, 2006;Scheuble & Johnson, 1993), and report a strong positive correlation with women's educational attainment and rejecting the practice of marital name changing (Gooding & Kreider, 2010).…”

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“…A research study by Scheuble and Johnson (1993) conducted personal interviews with college students at a small US Midwest college. The majority (81.6%) of women respondents planned to change their name upon marriage (p. 751).…”

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Marital Name Changing: Delving Deeper into Women’s Reasons

Keels¹,

Powers²

2013

AASoci

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Using a mixed method approach, this study examines women's reasons for the traditional practice of marital name changing. We utilize data collected via a questionnaire administered to first-year college students at a southeastern US public university and data gathered from in-depth interviews with recent college graduates. The quantitative results show that the reasons given for marital name changing are closely tied to social norms. The results from the qualitative analyses reveal more specifically how social norms direct the practice of marital name changing. Together the findings show that women's perceptions of their family's expectations are a key reason motivating them to practice marital name changing. However, in both samples, respondents express mixed and sometimes inconsistent reasons regarding marital name changing. Respondents emphasize the importance of adhering to the tradition while also reporting that they did not consider marital name changing as an important issue. These findings indicate the multifaceted quality of the issue. Together, the results illustrate how social norms shape people's personal decision about marital name changing while also showing how the decision made by people shapes society.

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Gender and Discourse

Weatherall¹

2008

The International Encyclopedia of Communication

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I am also grateful to people outside my university for their encouragement and comments on various chapters. I would particularly like to acknowledge the friendship and support of Nicola Gavey and Marsha Walton.The person whose input I have valued the most is John Haywood. Without his contagious enthusiasm for academic life, his belief in my work and the hours he dedicated to proofreading every chapter draft, this book might never have materialised.

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Marital Name Change: Plans and Attitudes of College Students

Cited by 55 publications

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Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges

Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges

Marital Name Changing: Delving Deeper into Women’s Reasons

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