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High School Students' Marital Lifestyle Preferences: A Test of Reference Group Theory

Department of Sociology, The University of Akron

T. Neal Garland

Department of Sociology, The University of Akron

Brian F. Pendleton

Department of Sociology, The University of Akron

The impact of parents and best friends upon the marital lifestyle preferences of a sample of 181 high school students is examined. Respondents' choices of lifestyles are found to be correlated with their perceptions of best friends' choices to a slightly greater degree than with perceptions of parents' choices. However, perceptions of best friends' and parents' choices both exert a significant influence on respondents' own choices. Mother's occupation also exerts a strong influence. A variety of family and attitudinal variables tested through regression analysis fail to show any additional significant influence on respondents' stated preferences for marital lifestyles.

Human Relations, Vol. 39, No. 11, 1053-1066 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/001872678603901107


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