UNMARRIED PEOPLE'S PERCEPTION REGARDING THE CONSEQUENCES OF LATE MARRIAGE IN ISLAMABAD

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out the unmarried people 's perspective regarding the consequences of late marriage in Islamabad. The study focused on the impact of late marriage on the life of people and people 's perception about the problems caused by late marriages. The research also focus ed on the social behavior/attitude of people towards late married couples and the reasons that forc ed people towards late marriage. The hypothesis of the study included the impacls of late marriage on Ihe life of people and psychological/health issues caused by lale marriage. The researcher applied social exchange theOlY as well as stimulus-value-role theory in Ihis research. The researcher used survey method in which questionnaires were distributed among the people. The sample size was 200 which included respondents from different areas of Islamabad. The researcher used Statistical Package for Social Sciences as the tool for data analysis and Chi-square and Phi coefficient tests were applied to check the relations among the variables. The major .fIndings shmved that higher education is the main reason for late marriage in Islamabad. Some other reasons may included, heavy demand of dowry, perfect match, and lack of proposals. The study also revealed that religion, sect, caste system, fam ily system and sometimes cultural/traditional values become the hurdle in marriage. The study also revealed that there is a strong psychological impact of late marriage on people. Due to lack of proposals and rejection of proposals, people feel stress/depression and sometimes they become mad. Due to the modern technologies, problems regarding child births in older age have reduced. Study also showed that most of the respondents were against the late marriage because according to them more problems can be caused through late marriage.