2018 Volume 69 Issue 2 Pages 105-114
The purpose of this study was to consider what factors lead to the desire to marry. I conducted an anonymous questionnaire survey on the internet over the whole area of Fukui and Osaka Prefectures in 2014. Then, I conducted hierarchical multiple regression analysis with the desire to marry as a dependent variable, based on personal attributes, the experience of contact with children, cognition of families' or friends' married life and childrearing, and the number of relationships with members of the opposite sex as independent variables. As a result, I found that the desire to marry seemed to be affected not only by personal attributes, but also various experiences in the course of people's lives. It became clear that there was a strong connection between cognition of friends' married lives, the number of friends and relationships with members of the opposite sex, and the traditional view of marriage.
