When Are You Going to Marry? Intention to Marry through the Lens of Theory of Planned Behavior and Self-Regulatory Focus

Year 2024, , 48 - 62, 29.03.2024

Aylin Koçak , Athanasios Mouratidis

https://doi.org/10.17066/tpdrd.1251530_4

Abstract

What makes people to take important decisions in their lives, such as marriage? To answer this question, we relied on theory of planned behavior to examine the degree to which peoples’ attitudes, subjective-norms, and behavioral control perceptions predict their intentions to marry. Furthermore, we used self-regulatory focus theory to examine whether such attitudes, norms, and perceptions could be partly explained by peoples’ focus on pursuing-gains versus securing non-losses. We conducted a cross-sectional, web-based survey with a sample of 699 Turkish young adults (70.7% females; Mage = 24.89 years, SD = 4.31). The results of the structural equation modeling showed that promotion-focus positively and prevention-focus negatively related to perceived behavioral control, which in turn negatively related to intentions to marry. Intentions also related positively to attitudes but not to subjective-norms, which however related positively to promotion-focus and negatively to prevention-focus. Gender and age differences were also found. The results are discussed in light of the two theories.

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marriage intention, theory of planned behavior, self-regulatory focus theory, promotion-focus, prevention-focus

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Ne Zaman Evleneceksin? Planlı Davranış Kuramı ve Öz Düzenleme Odağı Kuramı Merceğinden Evlilik Niyeti

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Bireylerin hayatlarında evlilik gibi önemli kararlar almalarını sağlayan nedir? Bu soruyu yanıtlamak için hazırlanan bu çalışmada, planlı davranış kuramı ışığında, bireylerin tutumları, öznel normları ve davranışsal kontrol algılarının evlilik niyetlerini ne derece yordadığını incelemek amaçlanmıştır. Buna ek olarak, öz düzenleme odağı kuramını kullanarak, bu tür tutumların, öznel normların ve davranışsal kontrol algılarının kayıplara ya da kazanımlara odaklanmalarıyla açıklanıp açıklanamayacağını incelemek amaçlanmıştır. Çevrimiçi olarak yürütülen bu enlemesine kesitsel çalışmada, toplamda 699 genç yetişkine (%70,7 kadın; Ortyaş = 24,89 yıl, S = 4,31) ulaşılmıştır. Yapısal eşitlik modellemesi bulguları, yaklaşmacı odaklı olmanın algılanan davranış kontrolünü ve öznel normları pozitif, kaçınmacı odaklı olmanın ise algılanan davranış kontrolünü ve öznel normları negatif yönde yordadığını göstermiştir. Ek olarak, algılanan davranış kontrolü ve tutumlar ise evlilik niyetini negatif yönde yordamıştır. Cinsiyet ve yaş farklılıkları bulunmuştur. Bulgular iki kuram ışığında tartışılmıştır.

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evlilik niyeti, planlı davranış kuramı, öz düzenleme odağı kuramı, yaklaşmacı odak, kaçınmacı odak

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