Married Compared to Unmarried Students

Abstract

In this chapter my marital status variable is dichotomized into two subsets consisting of only married students in one and all others (single, widowed, separated and divorced) in the other. In the next section (6.2) I provide a summary of the composition of the married sample and compare essential aspects of it to the unmarried residual. In Section 6.3, I employ the same simple linear model used in Volume One, Chapter 5 to explain life satisfaction and happiness on the basis of satisfaction in 12 domains and 8 demographic variables. Following that, I present an overview of the results of using MDT to explain happiness and satisfaction in all domains for married and unmarried students, males and females (6.4). Then the focus is sharpened and I review these results for each domain in comparison with the others for married and unmarried students, males and females (6.5). In the last section (6.6), the focus is sharpened again and I examine the results of using MDT to explain satisfaction with one’s living partner when the latter is also one’s marriage partner, for all married students, males and females.KeywordsLife SatisfactionSimple Linear ModelLife Satisfaction ScoreInfluential PredictorHappiness ScoreThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.