Relationship between family sense belonging, marriage expectations and marriage attitudes of university students

It is the first place where the psychological, social and physiological development of individuals begins. One of the most important goals of people in life is to have a happy marriage life. In fact, healthy individuals emerge from happy families. Perhaps the most important subject of today's world is family. This research is therefore important. Purpose of the research; An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Family sense of Belonging, Marriage Expectations and Marriage Attitudes of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Students. The study was conducted on 472 individuals, 250 female and 222 male students studying in different departments in the academic year of 2017-2018. In order to determine the family belonging level of the students, Mavili et al. (2014) Family Commitment Scale en developed by Öz Soysal et al. (2016) and Marriage Expectation Scale and "Marriage Attitude Scale were used. SPSS 21.0 package program was used for data analysis. In the analysis of the data, the frequency distribution in determining the demographic characteristics, Mann-Whitney U test to examine the relationship between two independent variables and family belonging, expectation of marriage, marriage attitude, Kruskall-Wallis H to examine the relationship between marriage and expectation of marriage, more than two variables Correlation analysis was used to examine the relationship between marriage, expectation of marriage and marital attitude. The difference between the variables was interpreted on the basis of P<.05 significance level. According to the findings, it was determined that the university students' family belonging, marriage expectations and marriage attitudes; It was concluded that the variables such as gender, age, monthly income of parents, education level of parents did not affect. There was a significant difference between family belonging and expectation of marriage. There was a significant difference between marriage expectation and marital attitude. In the light of these findings, the data are discussed and interpreted and suggestions that may be useful for future research are included. Keywords: Family Sense of Belonging, Marriage Expectancy, Marriage Attitude, University Students.