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Influence Of Mate Selection And Self-disclosure On Marital Stability Among Couples
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background to the Study
The
choice of a mate is a problem that human beings share with most other
animals, because successful reproduction is central to natural
selection. Peahens choose among most attractive peacocks, female
elephant seals and even promiscuous chimpanzees exercise choice about
their chimps with which they will be promiscuous (Broude, 1994). In
every human society in the world, methods have been evolved for people
to pair up and eventually get married in order to establish their own
families. For most of the societies, this process was largely controlled
by parents and kins in early days. Parents usually had direct control
through strong community and kinship networks that exerted pressure on
youths to conform to traditional norms. Only few societies, if there is
any, allow young people to choose partners without the approval of
parents and/or other relatives. It is when people remain in their
communities or places of birth, that the bond of strong kin, networks is
crucial in mate selection (Ekiran, 1996). Although mate selection
process was once controlled by parents, it has now become much a matter
of personal choice by the young lovers.
Blossfed (1994), identified some methods of mate selection among individuals which include:
a. Arranged method of mate selection.
b. Self-selection method.
c. Mate selection by friends.
d. Mate selection through others.
According
to Blossfed, parents choose spouses. Bankole (1991) observed that the
general practice is for a father to look for a girl for his son to
marry. the preliminary steps usually begin around puberty. According to
Fadipe (1990) the usual age for girl’s betrothal start from ten years.
Sometimes girls are said to have been marked out from childhood as
intended wife for a particular young man with or without her knowledge.
This however, may begin as a kind of joke between the two families
involved, but with time the intention becomes more serious and often
times, results to marriage. According to Fadipe (1990), this method of
mate selection is true of the Yoruba people of the South-West Nigeria,
and other ethnic groups in the nation during the early days.
As
Adesomoju (2000) puts it, when an individual chooses his or her marital
partner, this could be regarded as the self-selection method. This
method was very uncommon in the early days, although it seldomly
happened. Self-choice is the most prevailing method today. This is
because since young people in search of higher education and better
employment opportunities leave the rural areas for the urban centres,
they are largely out of the control of their parents and as such, they
choose marital partners by themselves. The factors at work can be summed
up as: a change in economy, the decline of rural areas, the rapid
growth of some occupations and the decline of others, the lure of the
cities, the new opportunities far from home, the importance of
education, and the relative emancipation of women, all of which led
young men and women to seek more independence from their parents.
Self-selection method is more pronounced among remarried couples than
first marriage couples.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study attempted to examine the influence of mate selection and self-disclosure on marital stability among couples in Lagos State.The descriptive research design was used in the study. The questionnaire was used to assess the opinions of the selected respondents with the collection of relevant data from them, while the sampling technique was used to select the sample size of the study.A total of 120 (One hundred and twenty) respondents were selected by the application of the stratified sampl ... Continue reading---
