PARENTAL OPINION REGARDING LEVEL OF EDUCATION IN CRITERIA OF MATE SELECTION IN JHANG, PAKISTAN

Abstract

There are five basic institutions in each community. Family, religion, politics, economics and education are all institutions of a community. Marriage is unit of the family institution. Before entering into a marital partnership, people go through the process of selecting a spouse. in Pakistani society, parents and other family members have a significant influence on the choice of a marriage. The key purpose of this research is to examine parental criteria regarding mate selection, another purpose of this research is to know Parental opinion regarding level of education in criteria of mate selection in Jhang, Pakistan. The researcher used ended questionnaire to collect the data. A sample of 250 respondents was taken for the data collection. Then the data was analyzed through SPSS (statistical package for social sciences.) The questionnaire was signified with the help of Frequency distribution tables, cross tabulation and hypothesis testing. A survey including 250 respondents from Jhang. Jhang has been conducted for this research and primary research has been carried out to get a better outcome. The results illustrated that parental role in mate selection is most important. And they use educational criteria for mate selection due expansion of education. And they have different criteria for job status to son in law and daughter in law. Importance of education seems in every patterns of life so it is necessary to explore role of education in criteria of mate selection. According to researcher hypothesis, the parents are more likely to consider level of education in selection of son in law and daughter in law. This hypothesis was approved through the chi square test. The Null hypothesis was rejected through the chi square test. The person chi square value is 50.557a . Asymptotic Significance (2-sided) is .000. It was significant because the value was lower than 0.05. So the alternative hypothesis was accepted and null hypothesis was rejected.