2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study on the Relation between Advancement of Marriage Age and Care er Identity among College Graduated Women
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12610287
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educaion
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| Research Institution | Japan Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
IWAKI Hideo Japan Women's University, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences, Professor, 人間社会学部, 教授 (90114389)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TSUKAHARA Shuichi National Institute for Educational Policy Research, Research Department of Higher Education, Senior Researcher, 高等教育研究部, 総括研究官 (00155334)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | women's occupational career / women's postponing marriage / women's increasing graduated / women's life course |
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| Research Abstract |
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.
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Research Products
(4 results)
