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Showing papers on "Love marriage published in 1991"



01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: Researchers distributed questionnaires to 395 21-28 year old postgraduate students to determine their endogamous preferences in selecting a mate and to examine the relationship between these preferences and their sex, desired type of marriage, and discipline of postgraduate studies.
Abstract: Researchers distributed questionnaires to 395 21-28 year old postgraduate students at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Dharwad and Karnataka University both in Dharwad India to determine their endogamous preferences in selecting a mate and to examine the relationship between these preferences and their sex desired type of marriage and discipline of postgraduate studies. 64.3% preferred limited mate selection within their caste. Specifically 32.4% favored subcaste endogamy 19.5% caste endogamy and 12.4% kinship endogamy. 24.1% wanted to marry someone from another caste but someone of the same religion. 11.6% wished to marry someone of another religion. Female students were more likely to prefer caste endogamy than male students (76.0% vs. 53.5%; p < .01): kinship endogamy (14.8% vs. 10.3%) subcaste endogamy (38.5% vs. 27.2%) and caste endogamy (23.6% vs. 16%) than male students. Male students were more likely to prefer a mate from either the same or different religion than female students (29.6% vs. 17.6% and 16.9% vs. 5.5% respectively; p < .01). Even though most students (58%) preferred arranged marriages a considerable percentage (42%) preferred to marry for love. 41.6% of those who preferred love marriages wanted to marry someone from another caste compared with only 11.4% of those who preferred arranged marriage (p < .01). Students who wanted to marry for love were 3 times more likely to want to marry someone from another religion than were those who preferred arranged marriage (18.6% vs. 6.5%; p < .01). 45.4% of students who preferred arranged marriage wanted to choose their mate from the same subcaste compared with only 14.5% of those who wanted a love marriage (p < .01). 41.2% of applied science students preferred to marry someone of the same religion compared with 21.7% for basic science students and 16.3% for humanities students (p < .01). 50% of applied science students 75.2% of basic science students and 66.3% of humanities students preferred to select a mate from the same caste. Students older than 23 years were more likely to prefer intermarriage than intramarriage (p < .01). Overall 35.7% preferred intermarriages (intercaste and interreligious marriage).

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