Attitudes towards premarital sex in urban populations from Mumbai and Pune, India
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- Title
- Attitudes towards premarital sex in urban populations from Mumbai and Pune, India
- Creator
- Shivaji V. Atre
- Supervisor
- Dr G. Neil Martin.
- Date
- 2015
- Abstract
- Background Information: Recent studies have highlighted changing attitudes of Indians towards premarital sex, but focusing only on young population. This change can be observed in media and in the education system. The literature is rich in regards to the attitudes of young population but the attitudes of old population are not investigated. Aim: This study aimed to investigate whether age, gender and degree of religiosity influenced attitudes of Indians towards premarital sex. The study predicted that young population will have more permissive attitudes than old population, men will have more permissive attitudes than women and that people who are not at all religious will have more permissive attitudes than people who are religious, towards premarital sex. Participants: Total 182 Indians (81 males, 98 females) born or residing in the cities of Pune or Mumbai, India, participated voluntarily in this anonymous study. These participants were divided into three age groups (1824 years, 2534 years, more than 35 years) and three degrees of religiosity (not at all religious, moderately religious, very religious). Method: An online questionnaire containing demographic information and three scales (1) Reiss Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Scale (short form), (2) Sprecher's Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Scale, (3) The Attitudes Towards Premarital Sexual Behaviour Scale, was created using www.surveymonkey.com. The survey link was uploaded on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and also sent through emails. Results: A 3(Age group) x 2(Gender) x 3(Religiosity) independent groups ANOVA indicated that degree of religiosity had significant effect on attitudes towards premarital sex whereas, effect of age and gender was not found to be significant. Implications: The results indicated that the degree of religiosity and attitudes towards premarital sex were inversely proportional to each other, where more religious a person is, less permissive attitudes he/she will have. No such significant relation was found between age and gender with reference to attitudes towards premarital sex.
- Subject
- Premarital sex--India|Premarital sex--Moral and ethical aspects--India||
- Psychology
- Extent
- 77 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Regent's University London
- degree
- MSc Psychology
- Language
- English
- Date Issued
- 2015
- Type
- Thesis & Dissertation
- Rights Holder
- Regent's University London & Shivaji V. Atre
- Item sets
- Theses or Dissertation