An Analysis Of The Factors Affecting The Mate-selection Expectations Of The Rural Floating Population

Most of the rural floating populations are on their mate-selection ages. Besides being in a bad economic state, they are also faced with the puzzles of how to deal with their marriage, and these puzzles come from their immigration status, which brings on the feelings of being fringed and insecurity. Therefore, it is significant to study their mate-selection expectations,this study represents our attention about their real life style. This article analyzed the data of survey on the floating population in Xiamen city; the outcomes indicated that the unmarried rural floating populations'expectations of mate-selection has took on a modern character: firstly, in the motivation aspect, sensibility pursuing which stands for a modern tropism has enjoyed pride of place; secondly, in the standard aspect, most of the rural floating populations give their attention to mate's individual characters which stands for a modern tropism. At the same time, because of depending on social connection network, they also attach importance to mate's ability of gaining"guanxi"; thirdly, in the approach aspect, most of the rural floating populations will to select mate by themselves, and will to utilize some untraditional approaches. Others, the rural floating populations will to select mate at the age of 21.17(average), and the expectational age of mate-selection is older than the real age of mate-selection, if they do underwent first love. This article also built a multilayer theory frame which contains society,family and individual to analyze the factors affecting these people's expectations of mate-selection. The outcomes of Multi-Regression analysis indicate that the factors including individual backgrounds, family backgrounds and migrant experience.The contributions of this article as follows:firstly, built a multilayer theory frame and use survey data to testify it, all of these are based on learning the research productions of foreign and domestic scholars; secondly, this article paid attention to the real state of the rural floating populations, the outcomes trace out a intuitionistic prospect of their expectations of mate-selection, which allow us to put forward policy which base on their special problems; thirdly, this article use regression analysis method ,which is different from the mostly other researches.