The Relationship Between Age at First Marriage, School Dropout, and Marital Instability: An Analysis of the Glick Effect  

Oleh:

Bauman, Karl E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 29 no. 04 (Nov. 1967), page 672.

Isi artikel

Some data have shown that marital instability is greater for dropouts from high school and college than for graduates. This observation has been called the Glick effect. It has been suggested that this effect may result from identical psychological attributes acquired early in life by persons who drop out of school and marriage. The present study explores a different variable to explain some of the discrepancy in instability between dropouts and graduates: age at first marriage. The variables of immaturity, premarital pregnancy, and stress are used to formulate the hypotheses and interpret the findings. In general, data from the 1960 census of the United States population show that for most sex and color categories the differences in instability between high-school dropouts and graduates and college dropouts and graduates are relatively small when age at first marriage corresponds to school-attendance age, and that there is no Glick effect when age at first marriage corresponds to school-attendance age. The effect is present for persons who first marry at ages which do not correspond to school-attendance age. Suggestions are made for future research.

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