Thesis (M.A. (Social work)) -- University of Limpopo, 2017. / The overall aim of this study is to explore factors that contribute towards divorce among young couples in the Lebowakgomo area of Limpopo Province. The objectives of this study were to identify factors contributing towards divorce among young couples in Lebowakgomo, and to establish whether the causes of divorce among young couples in Lebowakgomo are the same as those identified in the literature. The research used the qualitative method in the study and the exploratory research design to investigate the factors contributing to divorce among young couples at Lebowakgomo Township. The target group was divorced young adults up to the age of 35 years who had been married for the period of not more than ten years. The researcher used snowball sampling because he knew someone who met the criteria for inclusion in this study. The sample size was based on the principle of saturation which suggests that data collection stops when there is no new theme emerging. The researcher reached a point of saturation at participant six. The researcher used the semi-structured interview to collect data. This allowed the researcher to elicit information about the respondents’ thoughts, feelings and perceptions as open-ended questions were used. The researcher used Interpretative Phenomenological Data Analysis (IPA) which allowed the researcher to explore in detail how the participants made sense of their personal and social world. This study found that sudden character change, lack of and poor communication, financial problems, abuse and infidelity are associated with divorce among young couples. It also emerged in the study that mastering all the stages of family life cycle can reduce the chances of divorce among young couples. This can be achieved by ensuring that young couples receive pre-marital counselling before they enter into marriage. In addition, after entering into marriage young couples should attend marital enrichment programmes.

Young wedded requirements are important in modern society. It is interesting to see how they realize their requirements in computer skills, spending their own leisure time, driving a car, etc. The adults’ education in Finland, Denmark was presented in theoretic part of this diploma work. The recommendations about adults’ balanced requirements and possibilities are also offered in this diploma work. The real self – education is a process which happens from the personality’s requirements to supply spiritual interests. Individuals establish self education’s purposes and their own knowledge. To establish young wedded self – education requirements and the realization of those requirements was the research of this diploma work. The research goals are: 1. To get an information about wedded requirements and to make a list about it. 2. To show wedded requirements about profession, leisure time, daily living and sport. 3. To find a realization of wedded requirements. 4. To make analysis and conclusions of all research of this diploma work. The research methods are: 1. Theoretical: the analysis of philosophic, pedagogical, psychological literature. 2. The respondents’ questionnaire and analysis. 3. Mathematical statistic methods. The finding of this diploma work: Ų The analysis of scientific literature proved the social problem of wedded requirements and the possibilities to supply those requirements. Ų Independent process is the problem of wedded self – education. Ų Wedded... [to full text]

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:39:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 cleide.pdf: 2736452 bytes, checksum: 292109c3f7a751f885989206cb5a5cb4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-11 / This dissertation aims to understand how young dual-career couples, without children, jointly build the financial commitment of companionship and investigate whether there is any influence of family-origin models in this process. The study is based on economic psychology premises and a systemic-constructivist approach. It is a qualitative study with a case study outline that used semistructured interviews and genograms as tools. Four couples were interviewed, whose marriages ranged between 1 and 4 years. They narrated their experiences in terms of meanings, uses, cultural and family values relative to money and how to manage it in dual working relationship. The knowledge that emerged from the data analyzed shows that the financial commitment construction process is an important task in the acquisition stage of family life cycle. This is influenced by the family models of each partner, as well as by the joint managing of household money and the possibility of being free to spend money on personal items. Gender issues also surfaced and pointed to changes regarding family roles, having evolved from a patriarchal model of marriage to one in which tasks are shared / Esta dissertação tem por objetivo compreender como jovens casais sem filhos, de dupla carreira, co-constróem o compromisso financeiro da parceria e investigar se há alguma influência dos modelos das famílias de origens nesse processo. As bases deste estudo estão nos pressupostos da psicologia econômica e da abordagem sistêmico-construtivista. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa com delineamento de estudo de caso e que tem como instrumentos a entrevista por pautas e o genograma. Foram entrevistados quatro casais cujos casamentos variaram de um a quatro anos de duração. Eles narraram suas experiências quanto aos significados, usos, valores culturais e familiares relacionados ao dinheiro e à maneira de manejá-lo na vida a dois. O conhecimento que emergiu dos dados analisados mostrou que o processo de construção do compromisso financeiro é uma tarefa importante da fase de aquisição do ciclo vital, influenciada tanto pelos modelos familiares de cada cônjuge como pela administração conjunta do dinheiro para o lar e pela possibilidade de autonomia de uso do dinheiro para gastos pessoais. As questões de gênero se fizeram presentes, e indicaram transformações quanto aos papéis conjugais, que passaram de um modelo patriarcal de casamento para um modelo conjugal com divisão de tarefas

La tesi analizza il significato dell'abitazione nella società contemporanea, dove il processo di individualizzazione e la crescente importanza dell'esperienza quotidiana come spazio in cui i soggetti costruiscono il senso del loro agire, rendono la casa un oggetto di studio privilegiato. La trattazione si apre con un'analisi dell'abitare che prende in considerazione i principali significati legati alla casa, riconducibili essenzialmente alle due sfere semantiche dei termini inglesi house e home, e traccia una breve storia dello spazio domestico italiano dagli anni cinquanta fino ai giorni nostri. Successivamente, l'analisi viene contestualizzata nella cultura italiana contemporanea; innanzitutto, l'attenzione è puntata sulla house, con la descrizione del quadro abitativo attuale da un punto di vista quantitativo e strutturale. Poi, ci si sofferma sulla home, con l'analisi della relazione tra la casa, i bisogni e la cultura nella società contemporanea e, in particolare, viene approfondito il ruolo dell'abitazione come strumento di comunicazione dell'identità. Dopo questo inquadramento generale, il focus si sposta sulle giovani coppie: con riferimento ai risultati della ricerca empirica, vengono descritte le tappe del processo del “metter su casa” e il modo in cui oggi si caratterizza il rapporto tra le giovani coppie e l'abitazione. / The thesis analyses the meaning of the couple house/home in contemporary society. The actual social context is characterized by a process of individualization and by the increasing importance of daily experience as a space where individuals try to build the meaning of their behaviour: these elements make house/home an interesting subject of study. The thesis starts with an analysis of inhabiting and of its main meanings, which are essentially linked to the two semantic areas of house and home, and describes a short history of Italian domestic space from fifties to our days. Then, the analysis focuses on contemporary Italian culture; first, the reasoning points attention towards the house, with the description of the actual dwelling situation from a quantitative and structural point of view. Then, the treatment examines the home, with the analysis of home-needs-culture relation, and, in particular, analyses the home role as an identity communication tool. After the analysis of the general situation, the focus moves to young couples: with reference to the empiric research, the treatment describes the steps of the “step up house” process and the particular relation between young couples and their home.