How do Indonesians Perceive Marriage? Semantics Analysis of Marriage as a Concept and Its Relation with the Well-being

Afifah Sari, Destie Ramadhan, Minerva Patricia, Pingkan Rumondor, Farah Djalal

2021

Abstract

In Indonesia, being married is considered a desirable social status and associated with well-being. However, there is a lack of research on marriage as a concept in Indonesia’s context. This study aims to explain how Indonesians perceive marriage and how it differs from Western cultures. A total of 388 Indonesian adults generated the meaning of marriage using a feature generation task (i.e., What is marriage according to you?). Their well-being levels (happiness, satisfaction with life and with relationship) and demographics were also collected to see whether a marriage was perceived differently based on these data. Descriptive analysis was employed. The generated features were coded, counted, and classified based on participants’ well-being levels in the three scales (happiness, life satisfaction, and relationship satisfaction). In general, marriage was perceived uniformly and primarily as ‘the union of two parties, along with ‘involves commitment’, ‘is a state and religion legal bond’, and ‘involves love’, regardless of their well-being levels. In other words, the marriage concept has no association with the level of well-being. The generated features also shown a significant overlapping with the marriage definition by Indonesian law. Theoretical implications and comparable results from the previous (Western) studies of relationships are described in detail.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sari A., Ramadhan D., Patricia M., Rumondor P. and Djalal F. (2021). How do Indonesians Perceive Marriage? Semantics Analysis of Marriage as a Concept and Its Relation with the Well-being. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Issues in Humanity Studies and Social Sciences - Volume 1: ICE-HUMS, ISBN 978-989-758-604-0, pages 10-18. DOI: 10.5220/0010742500003112

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ice-hums21,
author={Afifah Sari and Destie Ramadhan and Minerva Patricia and Pingkan Rumondor and Farah Djalal},
title={How do Indonesians Perceive Marriage? Semantics Analysis of Marriage as a Concept and Its Relation with the Well-being},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Issues in Humanity Studies and Social Sciences - Volume 1: ICE-HUMS,},
year={2021},
pages={10-18},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010742500003112},
isbn={978-989-758-604-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Issues in Humanity Studies and Social Sciences - Volume 1: ICE-HUMS,
TI - How do Indonesians Perceive Marriage? Semantics Analysis of Marriage as a Concept and Its Relation with the Well-being
SN - 978-989-758-604-0
AU - Sari A.
AU - Ramadhan D.
AU - Patricia M.
AU - Rumondor P.
AU - Djalal F.
PY - 2021
SP - 10
EP - 18
DO - 10.5220/0010742500003112