PREFERENCES AND VALUES AMONG ADOLESCENT BOYS AND GIRLS

The aim was to determine whether attendance at a coeducational or single‐sex school was associated significantly with happiness of marriage. The questionnaire method was used, and it was distributed via GP doctors for postal return. Subsidiary questions on social class, type of schooling (Grammar, Modern, etc.), religious denominations etc. were asked so as to make a preliminary investigation into other factors affecting happiness of marriage.

The most important finding was that for those who spent five years or more in any type of secondary school, the coeducational group had significantly higher happiness scores, both for men and for women. Subjects believed strongly that coeducational schooling helped them in making a happy marriage, and in their everyday relationships with the opposite sex.