Abstract:

This study aims to examine university students’ marital views. The study group consisted of 1280 (1003 female, 277 male) single university students. Percentage, frequency and chi-square analysis techniques were used to analyze the data. According to the study findings, majority of university students place marriage in their life course, the ideal marital age is around 26 years, the priority of most of the young people in their life plans is career and very few of them feel ready for marriage. In addition, the study revealed that nearly one third of university students want their marriages to be similar to their parents’ marriage, nearly one third of them have a positive attitude towards cohabitation before marriage, one fourth find it appropriate to have premarital sex, and more than half of them are anxious about getting married.

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