청년층의 결혼의향 및 결혼인식 관련 연구동향 : 국내 학술논문의 메타분석을 중심으로

This study started from the recognition of the situation and problem that the marriage rate of young people is decreasing and the average age of first marriage is rising as the marriage intention and marriage recognition of young people change. Accordingly, the main concepts related to the change of marriage intention and marriage recognition of young people were reviewed based on previous studies, and the analysis factors of meta-research to be used in this study were set referring to existing meta-researches. As a result of measuring the number of published articles by year, related studies have been conducted more intensively in the 2010s, and among the journals, Korea Journal of Population Studies have been published the most 9 related articles. The review of research method shows that there is 29 primary data-based quantitative researches, 23 secondary data-based quantitative researches, and 3 qualitative researches. As a result of the research topics review, 13 studies related to marriage intention occupied the most, and the second most studies related to marriage recognition/marriage attitude took up 10. Contributions of this study include the findings that the qualitative research is insufficient in related research fields. And author suggested that follow-up studies such as analytical metaresearch are necessary in the future.