미혼 남녀의 배우자 선택 조건 및 관련 요인 분석

Unmarried Men and Women’s Mate Selection Conditions and Related Variables

The purposes of this article are to find the general trends of unmarried men and women’s mate selection conditions, to estimate the differences according to related variables and to analyze the effects of significant variables influencing on mate selection. The samples were selected from the unmarried 164 men and 235 women living in Kwang-ju. The major findings are as follows: 1. All scores of mate selection conditions were higher than medium. Especially in desirable spouse conditions, women’s were higher than men’s. More valued spouse conditions were women’s appearance, health, family background in men and all conditions in women. Women desired more similar and interactional conditions than men. 2. External and internal conditions were significantly different from age, work in men and age, father’s and mother’s age in women. Homogeneous and interactional conditions were significantly different from sex role attitude, premarital sexual experience in men and age, education, work, father’s age, love, necessity of marriage, sex role attitude, premarital sexual experience in women. 3. External and internal conditions were influenced by work in men and mother’s and father’s age in women. Homogeneous conditions were influenced by premarital sexual experience, necessity of marriage in men and age, premarital sexual experience, necessity of marriage in women. Interactional conditions were influenced by sex role attitude, father’s age in men and sex role attitude, education, work in women.