Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
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Keywords
Adult children of divorced parents; Marital status; Academic theses;
Abstract
The purpose of this quantitative study is to examine the question does parental divorce during childhood influences the marital status of the child in adulthood? The data used in the present study come from a random representative national sample and was originally collected by Bumpass and Sweet (1988) for national use. The total sample size for the present study is 5027. It is hypothesized for this study that parental divorce will influence a child's martial status in adulthood. It is also expected that gender, race, and cohabitational history will interact with parental marital status and influence the marital status of the adult child. It is also expected that for those children who come from divorced homes, the age at the time of the parental divorce, having step-parents and having multiple parental divorces will have an influence on their marital status. Akers' (1985) version of Social Learning Theory is used to guide the study. The methods of analysis for this study include univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses. It is found that parental marital status is weakly associated with child's marital status. None of sub-hypotheses are found to be true. Yet a direct relationship is found between gender and child's marital status, also a direct relationship is found between cohabitational history and child's marital status.
Year of Submission
2005
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
First Advisor
Kristin Y. Mack
Second Advisor
B. Keith Crew
Third Advisor
Gene Lutz
Date Original
2005
Object Description
1 PDF file (94 leaves)
Copyright
©2005 Susan Barbara Frommelt Czerniak
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Czerniak, Susan Barbara Frommelt, "Parental Marital Status Relationship With Adult Children’s Marital Status" (2005). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2436.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2436
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