| By comparing with the local-marriages, we know about characters of remote-marriages and their families, understand their mating patterns of marriage, analysis marital quality and its influencing factors. All these information are useful for "Building a Harmonious Society" on the whole country and "New Countryside, New Home" Construction Program. The project used two-stage sampling method to select300local-marriage couples and300remote-marriage couples in6villages which were belonged to6different townships on Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province, China. The data collection method was self-administered questionnaire-based survey. Eventually we got1010effective records. The research questionnaire covered basic information, concept of love and marriage, marriage quality and so on.Through data analysis, the research got following conclusions:(1) Those who remote-married with Wujiang peoples were mostly women, mainly from the economically backward areas, with personal characteristics similar with local people. The local one of remote-marriage couple on20th century were relatively older and lower educational level. But those on21st century were similar to the local-marriage couple. Remote-marriage had same variance of personal resource between husband and wife with local-marriage couples, but these couples had higher percentage of similar character;(2) Remote-marriage couples selected their partners mostly by means from first areas (family) of life, but gradually transferred to the second (working) and third (spare time) areas of life. Men and women hold in same partner selecting criteria, which were priority on feelings, health, character and personality factors. Local socio-economic environment is also an important external drive for remote-marriage.(3)5dimensions of marital quality scores given by the remote-marriage participants were:marital life satisfaction79.75points,78.81points on spouse satisfaction, material life satisfaction66.91points,60.53points marital intimacy and marital harmony88.77points. Remote-marriage couples gave similar marital quality evaluation as local-marriage. Wife from outside of Wujiang city evaluated lower quality of marriage than their husband.(4) The demographic factors associated with marital quality were:age, education level, self-evaluation of external image, Love and marriage attitude and behavioral factors which influenced the degree of marital quality were:degree of focusing on perfectly matching, importance of sexual life and pre-marital emotional depth. Family factors were:family life cycle, division of major event management, family relationship, family income, and concept homogeneity. Neighborhood positively related on all dimensions of marital quality.(5) Remote factor reduced spouse satisfaction and marital intimacy. Remote factor also interacted marital quality with factors such as self-evaluation of external image, pre-marital emotional level, level of knowing each other before marriage, importance of sexual life, family income, division of major event management, couple age difference, concept homogeneity and personal resources.According to these findings, the thesis finally raised number of suggestions for unmarried people, married people and the community to improve marital quality. The research believed that "good match" not only referred to the similarity of family background, but also meant that the couple had more homogeneity of individuals, especially the homogeneity of concept. Marriage exchange on remote-marriage included the region’s strengths and personal resources exchange. Reasons for the similarity of marital quality scores between remote-marriage and local-marriage may be:cultural modernization, reduction of discrimination against outsiders, choice mechanism for remote-marriage, modern changes on mating patterns of marriage and relatively simple family relationships. |
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