The Study Of Postgraduates' Views On Responsibility For Love And Marriage: Developmental Characteristics And Influential Factors

The notion of responsibility for love and marriage refers to conscious and emotional perception, under certain historical circumstance, to take the respective responsibilities and fulfill corresponding obligations with the purpose of developing into a happy love and marriage. The ideas on the responsibility are often manifested by means of people's judgment on, attitudes towards and behavior of love and marriage, and it reflects the extent to which an individual is socialization and personification. It is a kind of personal psychological characteristic in emotion and behaviors and the level of responsibility-awareness is an important indication of how a society is civilized. This study of postgraduates' views on the responsibility in question will prove useful for social development and postgraduates' healthy growing up, meanwhile it can enrich the theory and practice of socialization.The present thesis aims to study the structure, historical characteristics and influential factors of postgraduates' views on love and marriage. This thesis, grounded in the findings of past researches with half open-end and half closed-end questionnaires in consideration, presents the theoretical hypothesis of structure of postgraduate's view on responsibility for love and marriage. Guided by this hypothesis, the writer produces the formal questionnaire accordingly. By survey of 1530 postgraduates, the author studies the characteristics of such development and influential factors. The conclusion of such research is as follows,1. Nine factors of postgraduates' views have been worked out: reflection, evaluation, flexibility, efficacy, assertion, determination, self-control, activity and insistence. The original questionnaire of "Postgraduates' Views on Responsibility for Love and Marriage" has a good reliability and validity.2. Postgraduates' views on responsibility for love and marriage are gender specific. On the whole, men postgraduates are more conscious in the responsibility than women postgraduates.3. Postgraduates' views on responsibility for love and marriage are obviously grade specific. The differences are shown as the second year of postgraduate>the first year>the third year.4. The views are marriage specific too. Married postgraduates are more conscious in the responsibility than single postgraduates.5. Such views are also affected by whether the subjects are from one-child family or not. The former ones ranks lower than the latter in the scores of the questionnaire. Women postgraduates from more-than-one-child family turn out to rank higher than those from one-child family in all nine factors, with greatest differences in insistence and self-control, except in assertion.6. The views are differentiated by whether the postgraduates are from rural areas or city. Wholly, the postgraduates with rural background have stronger awareness of responsibility than those with city background.7. Age specific is a characteristic of postgraduates' views on the responsibility. In the research, ages from 25 to 30 rank highest in score, ages over 30 stand in the middle, while ages from 20 to 25 rank lowest. Six factors have apparent differences excluding reflection, activity and assertion.8. The great discrepancies do not exist in the postgraduates' majors.9. Postgraduates" awareness of the responsibility is clearly determined by the extent to which their parents' marriages are happy. Postgraduates with the poorest father-mother relationship are located highest in score, followed by postgraduates with the happiest father-mother relationship, then by those with good, moderate, poor father-mother relationship.10. Distinctions also occur in postgraduates' marriage complexion. Postgraduate in normal marriage ranks highest, succeeded by those in unstable marriage, and those with abnormal marriage ranks lowest.11. The quality of marriage is an influential factor on their views. In the research, postgraduates with the highest quality of marriage rank top in score, then those with unstable, moderate, and those with poorest quality stand at bottom. From the comparison of all nine factors, it can be seen that all elements distinguish clearly with an exception of self-control.12. In conclusion, as postgraduates' views on the responsibility for love and marriage are affected by many factors, it is revealed that closely association doses exist in postgraduates' views on love and marriage, quality of love and marriage, self-control and postgraduates' views on the responsibility for love and marriage. It can suggest that postgraduates' views on love and marriage, quality of love and marriage, self-control are three predictors about the extent of postgraduates' responsibility awareness.