When College Students Were Asked to Rate the Most Important

question 58

Multiple Choice

When college students were asked to rate the most important criteria for deciding when someone is ready to get married, what was the most consistently endorsed item?

• A) capacity for intimacy
• B) being physically mature enough to have a child
• C) being emotionally mature enough to have a child
• D) being financially secure

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Definitions:

Registered Voters

Individuals who have officially registered to vote in elections within a specified area.

Margin of Error

An expression of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results, representing the extent to which the survey result is expected to vary from the true population value.

White Respondents

Survey participants who identify themselves as belonging to the White racial group.

African American

A term referring to Americans with ancestry from the black racial groups of Africa; it is used primarily within the United States.