ATTITUDE OF   FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TOWARDS THE PROCESS OF MATE SELECTION

Nazia  Salah ud Din; Farukh Waseem  Mirza; Asif  Nazar

doi:10.46662/jass.v11i1.445

Nazia Salah ud Din Associate Professor , Lahore College for Women university , Lahore
Farukh Waseem Mirza Education Specialist, Cluster Coordinator, United Nations, UNICEF Khartoum Sudan
Asif Nazar Associate Professor, Govt. Ambala Muslim Graduate College, Sargodha

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46662/jass.v11i1.445

Keywords: Mate Selection, Attitude, Females, University Students

Abstract

Relationships are the primary bond that holds people together and one of the important relationships that people have throughout their life is their marriage. In Pakistan, choosing a mate for a female is a dynamic process that is influenced by a wide variety of circumstances, such as parental participation, the social and educational level of the spouse, among many others. The objective of current study was to know the attitude of female students of Punjab University towards the process of selecting their marriage partners. It was a quantitative study and data was collected from 268 female students of final year selected through simple random sampling. Data was collected with the help of questionnaire as tool of data collection, whereas data was analyzed statistically by applying chi square test and it was found that educational and financial status were most important variables considered by females while choosing the spouse among other factors including maturity of spouse and qualities of character. It is concluded on the basis of study findings that in a patriarchal society like Pakistan females have very little autonomy in decision making and it is recommended that awareness should be created among people to consider opinions of girls while choosing their mate so that they could be involved in the most important decision of their family life.