Beyond Employment and Income: The Association Between Young Adults' Finances and Marital Timing
Beyond Employment and Income: The Association Between Young Adults' Finances and Marital Timing
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DOI：
10.1007/s10834-010-9214-3
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发表时间：
2011-09-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Price, Joseph
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作者：
Dew, Jeffrey;Price, Joseph
这项研究通过评估可见和不太可见的金融资产和债务是否介导了就业和结婚可能性之间的关系，对婚姻时机理论（Oppenheimer，Am J Sociol 94：563-591，1988）进行了扩展。我们使用来自全国家庭和住户调查的1,522名从未结婚的年轻人样本进行了这些前瞻性纵向分析。对于那些在第一波没有同居的参与者来说，诸如汽车价值等财务问题可以预测婚姻，但不能调解工作时间，职业声望和婚姻可能性之间的关系。对于同居的参与者来说，就业因素是婚姻的最强预测因素。
This study tested an extension of the theory of marital timing (Oppenheimer, Am J Sociol 94:563-591, 1988) by assessing whether visible and less visible financial assets and debt mediated the relationship between employment and the likelihood of marriage. We conducted these prospective, longitudinal analyses using a sample of 1,522 never-married young adults from the National Survey of Families and Households. For participants who were not cohabiting at Wave 1, financial issues such as car values predicted marriage but did not mediate the relationship between work hours, occupational prestige, and the likelihood of marriage. For cohabiting participants, employment factors were the strongest predictor of marriage.