The image of a marriage partner among students of humanities at the beginning of the XXI century

Abstract

The relevance of the chosen topic is explained by the authors, including with the help of divorce statistics in the modern world. In particular, in Russia, according to Russian Statistics, 47 thousand 537 marriages were registered at the time of February 2023, while the number of divorces is 46 thousand 101. That is, the total number of divorces is almost completely equal to the number of marriages concluded. This fact arouses the interest of many researchers, in particular, and the authors of this article, to the phenomenon of marriage and the image of a marriage partner. It is also necessary to mention (and this is done by the authors, as far as the conciseness of the scientific work allows) and various categories of factors (social, technological, etc.) that affect the attitude to the institution of marriage itself in modern society. The provisions briefly given in this paper reflect the main results of a scientific study that was conducted with the participation of students of the Moscow University for the Humanities. One of the goals of this study was to identify the peculiarities of the ideas of the youth of the 2000s about the image of potential marriage partners. The main hypothesis of the authors is that there are differences between the stereotypes of a representative of the opposite sex and the image of a future marriage partner in boys and girls aged 16 to 20–21 years. In accordance with the proposed theoretical and methodological provisions, the authors have compiled a program of empirical research, which includes the subject, object, goals, objectives and methods, for example, quantitative as well as qualitative processing of the data obtained. The final practical significance of the obtained results is deduced and formulated, the circle of persons who may be interested in the formulated conclusions is determined.