Around 46 per cent of eligible bachelors exhibit commitment anxiety and hesitate to assume marital obligations. Notably, women are more reluctant than men to get married. This emerged in a recent survey by the Psychology Department of Saurashtra University.
The study’s 1,242 participants included 500 eligible bachelors, marriage bureau personnel, and parents of single individuals. According to 90 per cent of research participants, the current generation would instead put off getting married.
The survey’s supervisor, Assistant Professor Dhara Doshi of SU’s psychology department told a section of the media that they to 360 eligible bachelors and 290 women. They discovered that more women than men are choosing not to get married. Common explanations include women’s growing focus on their careers and their perception that marriage will end their professional lives. Some female applicants we spoke with wanted to marry exclusively in large cities or overseas.
The study participants were from Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Junagadh, and Jamnagar. Researchers were also able to obtain information about single people through marriage bureaus, where parents filed profiles, and their children displayed reluctance to marry. According to the study, men who put off getting married on time frequently exhibited gamophobia, which is defined as a hesitation to commit.
According to the results, 75 per cent of participants blame their reluctance on their parents’ failed marriages and 63.60 per cent of participants saw marriage as a “hindrance” to life advancement. Nancy Rathod and Puja Dumadiya, two department students, conducted the poll.
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