Attitudes of university students towards institution of a marriage

• Authors: Andjelija Ivkov Dzigurski , Smiljana Đukičin Vučković , Stefan Stajić , Milena Sekulić , Ljubica Ivanović Bibić , Jelena Milanković Jovanov , Aleksandra Dragin

Abstracts

EN

Until recently, marriage was the only socially acceptable community of two partners of different gender, with the goal of creating a family and prolonging the human race. The aim of this paper is to examine the attitudes of University students towards marriage and family. The research was based on the survey regarding the attitudes of students from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia towards institution of marriage. Collected data were analysed by using the SPSS statistical software. The main results indicate that 93.8% of respondents want to get married one day; an ideal number of children for a family to have been two (48.4%); 54.6% of respondents strongly agreed that if being in a marriage does not work properly, they should divorce. The results of these analyses and their limitations suggest guiding a future research according to different attitudes of respondents. This research provides the most ambitious and systematic analysis to date the attitudinal evidence on the attitudes of family, future children, and divorce among University students.

Keywords

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marriage; University students; Novi Sad; Serbia

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Opolski. Redakcja Wydawnictw Wydziału Teologicznego
• Journal: Family Forum
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 12
• Pages: 15-30

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

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Andjelija Ivkov Dzigurski

• University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management

• https://orcid.org/0000000152672384

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Smiljana Đukičin Vučković

• University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management

• https://orcid.org/0000000304157665

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Stefan Stajić

• University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management

• https://orcid.org/0000000327102974

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Milena Sekulić

• University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management

• https://orcid.org/0000000201075691

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Ljubica Ivanović Bibić

• University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management

• https://orcid.org/0000000224093729

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Jelena Milanković Jovanov

• University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management

• https://orcid.org/0000000228440388

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Aleksandra Dragin

• University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management

• https://orcid.org/0000000181658426

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Identifiers

DOI

10.25167/FF/4809

Biblioteka Nauki

19322752