Research On The Attitude Towards Premarital Cohabitation Of The Generation After The80s In Urban

At present, China is in a period of social transition, which transforms to an openindustrial society from a traditional agricultural society and to market economy from plannedeconomy. People’s values have changed a lot, which will inevitably bring about the changes ofmarriage concept and the diversification of marriage behavior, for example, extramaritalaffairs, divorce, premarital cohabitation, among which pre-marital cohabitation is moreprominent. This research takes the generation after the80s in urban as the subjects, whoseexplicit and implicit attitude on premarital cohabitation are studied to provide effectiveprediction on youth behavior and useful reference for psychological counseling for marriage.Three parts consist of this research:The first study is on the explicit attitude towards premarital cohabitation, usingquestionnaire from four dimensions of "cognition","emotion","will" and "behavior".The second study is on implicit attitude towards premarital cohabitation, using GNATmeasurement. The experiment is three-factor mixed design：2(gender: male vs. female)×2(marital status: married vs. unmarried)×4(target attribute vocabulary: positive premaritalcohabitation vocabulary vs. negative premarital cohabitation vocabulary vs. active marriagevocabulary vs. negative marriage vocabulary) The gender and marital status are betweenvariables, in which gender has two levels of male and female, and marital status has twolevels of unmarried and married. The target attribute vocabulary belongs to within variablesand has four categories. The dependent variable is d’, i.e., the discriminability index.The third study is on implicit attitude of the subjects with or without children towardspremarital cohabitation, using GNAT measurement. The experiment is three-factor mixeddesign:2(gender: male vs. female)×2(child: with vs. without)×4(target attributevocabulary: positive premarital cohabitation vocabulary vs. negative premarital cohabitationvocabulary vs. active marriage vocabulary vs. negative marriage vocabulary) gender and childare between variables, in which the gender has two levels of male and female the child hastwo levels of with or without. The Dependent variable is d ’, i.e., the discriminability index.The following conclusions are reached: (1) The unmarried generation after the80s in urban hold more positive explicit attitudetowards premarital cohabitation than the married generation after the80s in urban.(2) There is significant gender difference between the explicit attitude towards premaritalcohabitation of the unmarried generation after the80s in urban, which shows the males holdmore positive attitude than the females.(3) There is significant gender difference between the explicit attitude towards premaritalcohabitation of the married generation after the80s in urban, which shows the males holdmore positive attitude than the females.(4) The unmarried generation after the80s in urban hold more positive implicitattitude towards premarital cohabitation than the married generation after the80s in urban.(5) There is no significant gender difference between the implicit attitude towardspremarital cohabitation of the unmarried generation after the80s in urban.(6) There is significant gender difference between the implicit attitude towardspremarital cohabitation of the married generation after the80s in urban, which shows themales hold more positive attitude than the females.(7) There is significant gender difference between the implicit attitude towardspremarital cohabitation of the married generation after the80s in urban with or withoutchildren, which shows the subjects without children hold more positive attitude than thosewith children.