Drive to marry and social prescription in Chinese online daters
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Lange, Rense
Houran, James
Li, Song
Abstract / Description
Individuals’ eagerness or desire to get married was investigated in a sample of online daters in China (n = 3,389) using a 6-item version of the Drive to Marry (DTM) Scale, which was modified with new questions about normative pressures to marry given the cultural emphasis on social prescription in Eastern versus Western culture. The questionnaire items conformed to a unidimensional Rasch scale with interval-level measurement, although two themes seemed inherent to DTM – positive feelings of excitement or anticipation and negative feelings of urgency or desperation. Consistent with previous theory and research, women exhibited stronger DTM than men and normative pressures resulted in greater perceived DTM. Finally, significant response biases by sex were found, indicating that men and women differ in their qualitative experience of DTM. The results offer a preliminary cross-cultural validation and perspective on DTM and expand the present conceptualization and measurement of the construct to guide future research and theory-building.
Keyword(s)
drive to marry social prescription cross-cultural Rasch scaling matchmaking online dating sex effectsPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2015-12-18
Journal title
Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
Volume
9
Issue
2
Page numbers
135–147
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Lange, R., Houran, J., & Li, S. (2015). Drive to marry and social prescription in Chinese online daters. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 9(2), 135–147. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v9i2.179
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Lange, Rense
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Houran, James
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Li, Song
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Date of first publication2015-12-18
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Abstract / DescriptionIndividuals’ eagerness or desire to get married was investigated in a sample of online daters in China (n = 3,389) using a 6-item version of the Drive to Marry (DTM) Scale, which was modified with new questions about normative pressures to marry given the cultural emphasis on social prescription in Eastern versus Western culture. The questionnaire items conformed to a unidimensional Rasch scale with interval-level measurement, although two themes seemed inherent to DTM – positive feelings of excitement or anticipation and negative feelings of urgency or desperation. Consistent with previous theory and research, women exhibited stronger DTM than men and normative pressures resulted in greater perceived DTM. Finally, significant response biases by sex were found, indicating that men and women differ in their qualitative experience of DTM. The results offer a preliminary cross-cultural validation and perspective on DTM and expand the present conceptualization and measurement of the construct to guide future research and theory-building.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationLange, R., Houran, J., & Li, S. (2015). Drive to marry and social prescription in Chinese online daters. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 9(2), 135–147. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v9i2.179en_US
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ISSN1981-6472
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1845
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.2211
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v9i2.179
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Keyword(s)drive to marryen_US
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Keyword(s)social prescriptionen_US
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Keyword(s)cross-culturalen_US
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Keyword(s)Rasch scalingen_US
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Keyword(s)matchmakingen_US
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Keyword(s)online datingen_US
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Keyword(s)sex effectsen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleDrive to marry and social prescription in Chinese online datersen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue2
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Journal titleInterpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
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Page numbers135–147
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Volume9
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