A Study on the Relation between Advancement of Marriage Age and Care er Identity among College Graduated Women

本研究的目的是分析大学毕业生女性推迟结婚的原因。关于这一主题的早期研究提出了五个主要假设。分别是贝克尔假说、伊斯特林假说、寄生虫单一假说、育儿假法律制度假说、性别轨迹假说。我们通过对2001年女子学院的5000个样本和2001年10所男女混合大学的4000个样本进行的问卷调查验证了这五个假设。总而言之，我们回收了1993个年龄在28岁至38岁之间的有效样本。 2001年。我们将调查样本分为4个年龄组，每个组都有相同的年收入分布。之后，我们利用逻辑回归，比较了各组内自变量（即由上述五个假设得出的变量）对因变量（即已婚与未婚比例）的相对影响。我们发现，职业认同意识对所有4个年龄组的婚姻决策都产生了统计上有意义的影响。伊斯特林的假设得到了一致的支持。这一结果表明，要缩短大学毕业生女性的结婚年龄，无论是高校还是企业，都需要确保大学毕业生女性顺利形成职业认同。

The purpose of this research Is to analyze the reason why college graduated women postpone their marriage. Earlier researches on this theme have produced five main hypotheses. These are Becker's hypothesis, Easterlin's hypothesis, Parasite single hypothesis, Child-care leave legal system hypothesis, Gender track hypothesis.We verified these five hypotheses based on questionnaire surveys which were conducted to 5000 samples from /women's colleges in 2001 and to 4000 samples from 10 co-ed colleges in 2001. All in all, we recovered 1993 effective samples aged between 28 to 38 in 2001.We divided our survey samples into 4 age cohort groups each of which has an identical annual income distribution. After this, we compared within each groups the relative influences on the dependent variables ( i.e. the ratio of the married to the non-married ) of the independent variables (i.e. those derived from the above five hypotheses ), by the use of logistic regression.We found that career identity consciousness exerted a statistically meaningful influence on marriage decision in all 4 age cohort groups. Easterlin's hypothesis was supported consistently. This result suggests that, to shorten the marriage age of college graduated women, it is necessary for both colleges and business enterprises to see to it that college graduated women smoothly form their career identities.