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The relationship of a high school family life course to post school problems and marriage role expectations
ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The relationship of a high school family life course to post school problems and marriage role expectations |
| Names |
Toliver, Rena Faye
(creator) O'Neill, J. Philip (advisor) |
| Date Issued | 1968-08-07 (iso8601) |
| Note | Graduation date: 1969 |
| Abstract | The purpose of this paper was to study the relationship of a high school family life course to post high school problems and marriage role expectations. The specific objective of the study was to determine whether or not there is a relationship between participation in a high school family life course and perceived problems and marriage role expectations. The subjects were girls who had completed a high school family life course from two high schools, in a North-Central California coast community, and their matched control group. The matching of the control persons with the family life students was done with regard to age, ethnic group, marital status and high school grade point average. A follow-up study was conducted, approximately two years after graduation, by mailing the instruments to the subjects. Forty-three of the experimental group and 35 of the control group responded. This represented forty-six percent of the total. Null hypotheses were formulated regarding the personal problems and the marriage role expectations of the two groups. The Mooney Problem Check List (MPCL) was used to determine the number and kinds of concerns of the subjects. The statements were related to nine areas: health, personality, self-improvement, economic security, home and family, religion, courtship, sex and occupation. The Dunn Marriage Role Expectation Inventory (DMREI) was used to determine whether the former family life students had more modern (equalitarian) marriage role expectations when compared with the control group. This instrument consists of 71 statements regarding expectations in the marriage roles and are related to seven areas: authority, homemaking, child care, personal characteristics, social participation, education, employment and support. The analysis of variance was used to test for a significant difference in the responses of the experimental and control groups for both the MPCL and DMREI. An F value of .007 in a comparison of marriage role expectations of the two groups made it impossible to reject the null hypothesis that there is no difference in marriage role expectations of former family life students and non family life students. An F value of .360 in a comparison of the total number of problems and F values below the level of significance in each of the nine areas in the comparison of the experimental and control groups made it impossible to reject the null hypothesis that there is no difference in the life adjustment problems of the two groups. Factors which may have effected the results of the study, limitations of the study and suggestions for further research were discussed. |
| Genre | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Topic | Family life education |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1957/46612 |
