Mate selection process and its associated factors. A retroactive analysis among married adults in the case of Southern Oromia (PDF)

Master's Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Psychology - Developmental Psychology, grade: 3.94, , course: Psychology, language: English, abstract: In the current study, the following major research questions have been addressed: What types of mate selection style did the adults prefer to select their spouse? What are the factors behind couple types of marriage adopted in their marriage selection process? Is there a relationship between youth mate selection factors?

This study was aimed to investigate the mate selection process and its associated factors with their marriage: a retroactive investigation with married adults in Elwaye Woreda of Borana zone. To investigate this research, the sequential exploratory mixed design was used. The study was mainly conducted by structured Mate Preferences Questionnaire contains the questions of mate selection style and factors in choosing a mate, focus group discussion, and interview. The respondents of the study are married adults of 377 samples found in selected six Ganda/kebeles for household survey study and the interview, two Abba Gada, two elders, and one married adult from each selected kebeles has participated. Three grouped FGD was also carried out containing one group from Saba kebeles, one from Elwaye, and one group from picked selective of each Ganda. To select those respondents the researcher has used cluster sampling methods for married adults of household survey and others were selected purposively. Both quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods were used. The quantitative data were analyzed by using SPSS V.20.The frequency distribution and cross-tabulation were also used to examine the relationship or association between two categorical variables, and the hierarchal Binary logistic regression model was used to interpret the result.