Abstract:
Incidence of adolescent marriages in South Kalimantan is still high and acts an
obstacle to maturing the marriage age program. This paper aims to analyze the dominant
factors which contribute to the maturity of women’s marriages by modifying the social
ecological framework theory. This survey study had 180 respondents with 113 women who
were married under 19 years and 47 respondents who were married at 19-30 years, while the
anlaysis was using bivariate and multivariate analysis. The variables used refer to the social
ecological framework theory and there are 2 variables used here, namely individuals
(education and work status) and interpersonal (father’s education, father’s occupation and
the economy of the respondent’s previous household). The results of the bivariate analysis
are in line with social ecological framework theory. Furthermore, the results of multivariate
analysis show that all of these variables are 35.7 percent influencing the adolescent
marriages. Based on multivariate analysis, the most influential determinants on adolescent
marriages are respondents from poor households before marriage, father’s working in
agriculture, respondents do not work, fathers do not graduate from elementary school and
respondents have low education.
Keywords: Determinants, Marriages, Adolescents, Maturing
