Psychological Readiness for Marriage as Personal Formation

Abstract

In the article the issue of psychological readiness for marriage is raised. On the basis of the theoretical analysis a multi-component model of psychological readiness for marriage is developed and proved. The author's concept is introduced where psychological readiness for marriage is personal formation the basic system components of which are value orientations, marriage motivation, ideas of marital hierarchy, marital attitudes and expectations, ideas of marital relations. For empirical evidence of the hypothesis made by us the postulation has been taken that any system has a number of attributes, and one of them is an interrelation of separate elements of the system. By means of the methods of mathematical statistics correlation matrices have been obtained which contained multiple significant both positive, and negative relations between the parameters included into the research. The analysis and interpretation of the data obtained in the research is provided.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s1p452