Meanings of Marriage to Young People in Vietnam

Vu, Thanh Thi

doi:10.1080/01494929.2017.1403991

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“…People like to have kids'. This was similar to the viewpoint of another participant in the study of Vu who said: 'marriage in principle is continuing the human generation' (20).…”

Section: Sense Of Immortality and Continuity Of The Generationsupporting

confidence: 79%

“…A 23-year-old male participant: 'God has created men and women as two different genders, goal is to continue the human generation'. This was similar to the viewpoint of one participant in the study of Vu: 'nearly everybody has to marry, so do I. I need to have a wife and children and I think man has to do so' (20).…”

Section: Sense Of Immortality and Continuity Of The Generationsupporting

confidence: 67%

“…When I'm old, I will have my children looking after me. If I was single, I would be alone when I got old and there would be nobody looking after me when I was sick' (20). This suggests that marriage in other cultures is somehow a reassurance of the future and the elimination of some of the individual's concerns.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Desire and Attitude to Marriage Among Unmarried Iranian Youth: A Qualitative Study

Keshavarz¹,

Shariati²,

Ebadi³

et al. 2018

International Journal of Women’s Health and Reproduction Scienc

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Introduction Marriage is the most common custom in all societies, which is recognized as the most important and fundamental form of communication and intimate affiliation (1). From William Good's perspective, the global revolution and the process of modernization, as well as social factors affect the family, marriage, and individuals (2). Over the past decades, due to cultural and social transformations, including urbanization and globalization, significant changes have occurred in the process of marriage throughout most developing countries (3). Iran as a developing country, in transition from tradition to modernity, has faced changes in all aspects of social subjects such as marriage and mate selection. Nowadays, marriage is one of the particular challenging issues in Iran (4). Statistics recorded in the center of Iranian statistics indicate a decrease in marriage rate, to such a degree that the number of registered marriages decreased from 874 792 in 2011 to 704 716 in 2016 (5). Between the years 1986-2011, the percentages of unmarried women and men increased from 9.4 to 26.2 and from 18.5 to 40.5, respectively (4). Following a youth bulge in Iran, one third of Iran's population was made up of people 15-29 years of age. Undoubtedly, changes in the number of young people have been followed by changes in social and cultural conditions (4). In Iran, in a poll conducted by experts from the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, it was determined that before marriage, young people had other priorities such as employment and education, so the marriage was in the seventh priority of Iranian youth. In recent years, the age of marriage has significantly increased in Iran, with an average increase of about six years in small cities and 10 years in Tehran city. At present, more than 11 000 000 women and men are on the brink of marriage, from which a significant proportion are now getting out of the appropriate age for marriage and fertility (6). Attitudes and decisions about relationships particularly marriage as a long relationship are important, because it can have consequences for one's happiness, lifesatisfaction, health and psychological well-being (7). In the context of attitude and marital pattern, quantitative studies have been conducted (8-13), though the number of qualitative studies have been very limited. The validity and reliability of the translated English version of attitude to marriage was examined in a quantitative study. It was reported that it was impossible to generalize the results, as a weakness of study, to other people of community. Given the structural impact of the socioeconomic situation on the attitude to marriage, it has been recommended that interview should be used along with a validated Abstract Objectives: Due to the importance of marriage in providing the society structure, foundation for family formation, and continuity of the generation, as well as considering the decline of marriage rate in Iran, this study was designed to explore desire and attitude to marriage among Iranian yout...

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“…People like to have kids'. This was similar to the viewpoint of another participant in the study of Vu who said: 'marriage in principle is continuing the human generation' (20).…”

Section: Sense Of Immortality and Continuity Of The Generationsupporting

confidence: 79%

Section: Sense Of Immortality and Continuity Of The Generationsupporting

confidence: 67%

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Desire and Attitude to Marriage Among Unmarried Iranian Youth: A Qualitative Study

Keshavarz¹,

Shariati²,

Ebadi³

et al. 2018

International Journal of Women’s Health and Reproduction Scienc

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“…Firstly, the perception that childbearing is "thiên chức của phụ nữ" (a natural vocation of woman) and a natural function of a man and woman to survive as human beings has been commonly perceived by IDI respondents. That response has been also mentioned in recent studies about Vietnamese people's attitudes towards marriage, notably Williams and Guest (2005), Williams (2009) and Vu (2013). According to my respondents, childbearing is a benchmark to measure men's and women's responsibilities and devotion to families as well as the extent to which they care for partners' feelings.…”

Section: Marriage As a Defining Feature Of Vietnamese Personhoodsupporting

confidence: 59%

Gender Ideology on Marriage in Contemporary Vietnam

Nguyen

Hoang

2019

RESIPROKAL

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This paper examines how conservative gender ideology affects Vietnamese men’s and women’s belief in marriage with a focus on the importance of marriage to their personhoodand aspirations for ideal marital partners. Since marriage is a both legal and social recognition for the foundation and maintenance of families in a society, studying gender ideology on marriage helps to identify differences in men’s and women’s perspectives over marriage and how those views can reflect gender equality in the domestic sphere. The data on which this paper is based are part of a larger research project, namely “Understanding Gender and Marriage Ideology in Contemporary Vietnam” which was conducted in 2015. The results of the study indicate that marriage is still highly important to both Vietnamese men and women. Marriage is not only a social recognition regarding people’s individual achievements and gender identities but also a type of economic investment (in children) for their old age. In relation to marriage aspirations, Vietnamese people still base on genderrole ideology, which highlights men’s and women’s distinctive roles in familial life, to select their marital partners. The persistence of Confucianism in Vietnamese society is the main source for Vietnamese people to set up criteria for their ideal partners.

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“…In search of the literature, it is notable that researchers have examined the attitudes towards marriage through various approaches, ranging from numerical item response (e.g., Schulenberg, Bachman, Johnston, & O'Malley, 1994) to open-ended interview questions (e.g., Vu, 2013), including a number of validated instruments. Yet, many of the existing instruments, such as Marital Attitude Scale (Braaten & Rosén, 1998) and Attitudes towards Marriage Scale (Kinnaird & Gerrard, 1986), were developed decades ago but lack of support in the context of divorced families.…”

Section: General Attitudes Towards Marriage Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

General Attitudes Towards Marriage Scale: Psychometric Properties in Malaysian Adolescents of Divorced Families

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Attitudes towards marriage in adolescence may influence the relationship quality in later years. There exist many measures of attitudes towards marriage which were validated among adolescents from two-parent family in the Western context. There is a need to validate measure of attitudes towards marriage in different countries. This study examined the psychometric properties of the Malay version of General Attitudes towards Marriage Scale (GAMS) in a sample of 480 adolescents from divorced families in Malaysia. Exploratory factor analysis yielded a two-factor structure of GAMS, which explained for 60% of the variance. Additionally, the two-factor structure of GAMS demonstrated good fit to data in the confirmatory factor analysis (TLI=.941, CFI=.958, RMSEA=.087, and χ 2 / df = 4.615). Overall, the GAMS exhibited good internal consistency (α = .901), which supports the reliability of the instrument. The significant relationships between GAMS and other constructs also provided evidences to the convergent validity (r = .761, p < .001 with intent to marry, r = -.170, p < .001 with overt inter-parental conflict, and r = .523, p < .001 with mother-adolescent relationship).Significant gender difference was found in the report of GAMS (t=-2.265, p<.05). Thus, the translated GAMS is a reliable, valid, and practical instrument to measure attitudes towards marriage among Malaysian adolescents in divorced family setting.

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Meanings of Marriage to Young People in Vietnam

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Desire and Attitude to Marriage Among Unmarried Iranian Youth: A Qualitative Study

Desire and Attitude to Marriage Among Unmarried Iranian Youth: A Qualitative Study

Gender Ideology on Marriage in Contemporary Vietnam

General Attitudes Towards Marriage Scale: Psychometric Properties in Malaysian Adolescents of Divorced Families

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