독신에 대한 청소년의 지각에 관한 연구

A Study on the Perceptions of Adolescents about Singlehood

This study was to identify the perceptions of adolescents about singlehood. The data were collected from 613 students living in Chonbuk province by the self-administered questionnaire. Frequency distributions, Cronbach s α, x² test, and t-test were conducted by spss/pc＋. The major findings of this study were as follows: (1) Adolescents perceived age of single man was from 32.6 years and that of single woman from 30.1 years, (2) The reasons for singlehood that adolescents perceived were free life , loss of interest in marriage , and unhappy marriage of parent , etc. (3) Adolescents had a negative opinion on singlehood. More than 50% of adolescents perceived that single woman was more appropriate for singlehood.