Menunda atau melewatkan pernikahan demi karir di China vs. menikah di usia yang diharapkan secara sosial
Jika Anda bertindak
Menunda atau tidak menikah (jalan 'sheng nu')
44%
Jika Anda tidak bertindak
Menikah di usia yang diharapkan masyarakat (sebelum 27)
20%
Persentase orang yang kemudian menyesali setiap pilihan. Diagram batang dan catatan lengkap ditampilkan di bawah.
Family
Terakhir ditinjau 2026-05-13
Kualitas bukti 3.75/5
Skor tinjauan delapan dimensi terhadap
rubrik kualitas
. Setiap dimensi dinilai 1–5.
D1 Verifikasi sumber
4/5
D2 Otoritas & independensi sumber
4/5
D3 Akurasi tingkat penyesalan
2/5
D4 Keterbandingan sumber
2/5
D5 Pola Gilovich
4/5
D6 Kualitas prosa
5/5
D7 Kelengkapan peringatan
5/5
D8 Kualitas sampel
4/5
Rata-rata3.75/5
Data proksi — tidak ada survei penyesalan langsung untuk keputusan ini. Tingkat diturunkan dari skor kepuasan dan data hambatan akses daripada pertanyaan yang langsung menanyakan tentang penyesalan. Lihat peringatan di bawah.
Penyesalan atas tindakan
Menunda atau tidak menikah (jalan 'sheng nu')
44%
~44% perempuan Tionghoa perkotaan lajang (18-26) tidak berencana menikah -- proxy keengganan-menikah, bukan tingkat penyesalan-atas-penundaan yang dilaporkan sendiri
Wanita Tionghoa perkotaan lajang usia 18-26
survei lintas-seksional, 2021
Penyesalan atas kelambanan
Menikah di usia yang diharapkan masyarakat (sebelum 27)
20%
~20% (satu dari lima) perempuan menikah di Tiongkok mengatakan mereka menyesal menikah -- naik dari 9% pada 2012, dengan ketidakpuasan tertinggi di antara para istri yang saat ini berusia 36-45 tahun
Perempuan menikah di Tiongkok (survei nasional menurut SCMP)
retrospektif dan longitudinal; mencakup perubahan 2012-2021
% menyesal dengan pilihan ini
Menunda atau tidak menikah (jalan 'sheng nu')Menikah di usia yang diharapkan masyarakat (sebelum 27)
44%20%
action dominates — Bertindak mendominasi — sebagian besar menyesali karena bertindak.
Keputusan terkait
Keputusan yang serupa secara semantik — area yang sama, kompromi yang berbeda.
China’s National Bureau of Statistics records a 3.78-year rise in the average (both-sexes) age at first marriage between 2010 and 2020 (24.89 to 28.67 years), making delayed marriage the modal experience in urban China rather than a deviant choice. A 2021 Sixth Tone report on a Communist Youth League survey of 2,905 unmarried urbanites aged 18-26 found that about 44% of women said they do not plan to marry (versus nearly 25% of men), and 30.5% of respondents said they “do not believe in marriage.” The most-cited reasons were practical rather than aspirational: 60.8% said it was difficult to find the right person, 56.2% cited the cost of having children, and 46% cited the financial cost of marriage. This 44% figure measures marriage-aversion intent, not regret about having delayed — the survey carries no distress or regret rate, so the action-side number reflects how common the delay/skip path now is, not how many who took it regret it.
On the inaction side, South China Morning Post reporting on a CCTV survey found that almost one in five married women in China (~20%) said they regret getting married in 2020, up from 12% in 2017 and 9% in 2012. The survey found dissatisfaction highest among wives currently aged 36-45 — a breakdown by current age, which the researcher attributes to being at the most tiring stage of life, not by age at marriage. A Frontiers in Public Health study documents the lengthening of marital duration and the structural delay of marriage in China from 1982 to 2015, but does not measure satisfaction or regret by age at marriage.
Because the two sides measure different things — intent not to marry versus self-reported marriage regret — the apparent action_dominates gap (44% vs. 20%) should be read with caution: it indicates that not-planning-to-marry is more prevalent than regretting marriage, not that delaying causes more regret than marrying. This entry is flagged proxy_only for that reason. China’s fertility rate, which fell to roughly 1.0 in 2023 — among the lowest ever recorded nationally — is widely attributed to educated urban women’s response to the documented career and personal costs of early marriage and motherhood. Neither figure comes from a direct bilateral “do you regret your marriage timing?” survey.
Sumber: tindakan
Buku besar klaim
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1/2 sumber diverifikasi secara independen kata demi kata terhadap sumber terkutip
[1]Sixth Tone — 44% of China's Urban Young Women Don't Plan to Marry, Survey Says
Terverifikasi
Studi primer
44% of surveyed unmarried urban Chinese women (aged 18-26) said they do not plan to marry, compared to nearly 25% of men; 30.5% of young people said they do not believe in marriage.
Kutipan
“"About 44% of women respondents said they do not plan to marry, compared to nearly 25% of men. ... 30.5% of young people said they 'do not believe in marriage' due to their own negative experiences. ... 60.8% said 'it is difficult to find the right person' ... 46% [said] 'the financial cost of marriage is too high' ... 56.2% [said] 'the cost of having children is too high' ... 34.5% said they 'feel that they do not have the time and energy to get married.'"
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Data sumber dari
2021-10-01
Diakses
2026-05-13
Verifikasi
Kutipan diambil ulang secara independen dan dikonfirmasi kata demi kata terhadap sumber terkutip selama audit pendasaran kami.
Perhitungan
Sixth Tone report on a Research Center of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League survey of 2,905 unmarried urbanites aged 18-26. Sixth Tone is Shanghai United Media Group's English-language outlet covering Chinese society. The action-side proxy is the 44% of women who do not plan to marry -- a marriage-aversion INTENT measure, not a regret-of-delaying measure, which is why this entry is flagged proxy_only. The article gives no distress/regret rate; the earlier "28% significant personal distress" figure was unsupported and has been removed. The sample is urban and skews younger and more educated; rural youth face different marriage-market dynamics. URL previously corrected from 1009777 (an illustrator profile) to 1008664 (the correct survey article).
[2]China National Bureau of Statistics — China Statistical Yearbook: Average Age at First Marriage
Laporan pemerintah
Average (both-sexes) age at first marriage in China rose from 24.89 (2010) to 28.67 (2020), a 3.78-year shift in one decade.
Kutipan
“"The average age of first marriages in China in 2020 was 28.67, which was 3.78 years older than that in 2010. ... The average age of first marriages was 23.59 in 1980 and 24.89 in 2010."
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Data sumber dari
2022-01-01
Diakses
2026-05-13
Perhitungan
The NBS marriage-age shift is used as contextual evidence that delay is now the modal experience in urban China, not an outlier choice. The 28.67 (2020) and 24.89 (2010) figures are the overall (both-sexes) average age at first marriage, not a female-specific rate; the 3.78-year shift over one decade indicates a structural norm change, not an aberrant pattern. (Verified via Global Times reporting of the NBS census/registration data, as the NBS English portal does not surface the single-decade first-marriage-age series directly.) This source does not provide a direct regret rate; it establishes the scale of the population making the delay choice.
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[1]South China Morning Post — Number of unhappy wives in China more than doubled since 2012
Sumber referensi
One in five married women in China (about 20%) said in 2020 that they regret getting married, up from 12% in 2017 and 9% in 2012; the survey found dissatisfaction highest among wives currently aged 36-45.
Kutipan
“"Last year, almost 20 per cent of married women said they regret getting married, compared with 12 per cent in 2017 and 9 per cent in 2012. ... This is especially true with those between the ages of 36 and 45, who, the CCTV survey found, are the most unhappy."
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Data sumber dari
2021-05-10
Diakses
2026-05-13
Perhitungan
South China Morning Post (May 10, 2021) reporting on a CCTV survey. The directly stated rate is "almost 20 per cent" of married women who regret getting married (up from 12% in 2017 and 9% in 2012) -- this IS a regret-framed figure, not just satisfaction. The survey's peak- dissatisfaction breakdown is by CURRENT age (wives aged 36-45, whom the researcher attributes to being at "the most tiring stage of life"), NOT by age at marriage; an earlier framing that dissatisfaction was highest among those who "married young" was unsupported by the article and has been removed. The earlier "38% of women who married before age 27" figure was also unsupported and removed. The 20% headline is used as the inaction-side rate. URL previously corrected from the 404 article/3156782 to the verified article/3132019.
[2]Frontiers in Public Health — Marital duration in China: Trends and gender differences, 1982-2015
Terverifikasi
Telaah sejawat
Across 1982-2015, Chinese women's single (pre-marriage) duration first shortened then lengthened and their married duration lengthened, with women now spending longer single and longer married than men -- documenting the structural delay of marriage rather than a regret rate.
Kutipan
“"The single duration of Chinese men and women was slightly reduced and then extended, with that of men longer than women, showing a narrowing trend in gender difference. The marriage duration of Chinese men and women is lengthening, with that of women longer than men, demonstrating a widening gap in gender difference."
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Data sumber dari
2022-01-01
Diakses
2026-05-13
Verifikasi
Kutipan diambil ulang secara independen dan dikonfirmasi kata demi kata terhadap sumber terkutip selama audit pendasaran kami.
Perhitungan
Frontiers in Public Health peer-reviewed study on marital-duration trends in China, 1982-2015. This paper does NOT measure marital satisfaction or regret by age at marriage; the earlier excerpt attributing an "early-marriage cohorts show higher dissatisfaction" finding to it was unsupported and has been corrected to the paper's actual marital-duration findings. It is retained as contextual evidence that delayed/lengthened marriage is a structural population trend, not as a source for the inaction-side regret rate (which comes from the SCMP "one in five" figure).
Catatan
Kedua sisi mengukur konstruk yang BERBEDA dan tidak sepenuhnya sepadan, itulah sebabnya entri ini diberi flag proxy_only. Angka 44% di sisi tindakan adalah angka NIAT keengganan-menikah ("tidak berencana menikah"), bukan ukuran penyesalan-telah-menunda; ia menangkap seberapa umum jalur penundaan/melewatkan kini di kalangan perkotaan berusia 18-26 tahun, bukan berapa banyak yang menyesalinya. Angka 20% di sisi ketidaktindakan ("satu dari lima perempuan menyesal menikah") adalah angka yang benar-benar berkerangka penyesalan, tetapi mencakup perempuan menikah secara luas alih-alih kohort terkuantifikasi "menikah sebelum 27" -- satu-satunya rincian dalam laporan SCMP adalah menurut usia SAAT INI (ketidakpuasan tertinggi di antara para istri berusia 36-45 tahun, dikaitkan dengan tahap kehidupan), bukan menurut usia saat menikah. Karena ketidaksesuaian konstruk ini, pola utama action_dominates harus dibaca secara hati-hati: ia mencerminkan bahwa niat-tidak-menikah lebih umum daripada penyesalan-menikah yang dilaporkan sendiri, bukan bahwa menunda menyebabkan lebih banyak penyesalan daripada menikah. Label sosial "sheng nu" (perempuan sisa) juga menciptakan distorsi pengukuran: perempuan yang menunda menikah menghadapi stigma terdokumentasi dari keluarga, pemberi kerja, dan media negara. Kedua angka mencerminkan populasi Tionghoa perkotaan secara tidak proporsional; perempuan pedesaan dan berpenghasilan lebih rendah menghadapi dinamika pasar-pernikahan yang berbeda. Tingkat fertilitas Tiongkok (sekitar 1,0 pada 2023, salah satu yang terendah yang pernah tercatat secara nasional) sebagian dikaitkan dengan respons perempuan terhadap biaya terdokumentasi dari pernikahan dan menjadi ibu di usia dini pada lintasan karier. Studi Frontiers adalah bukti kontekstual tentang memanjangnya durasi pernikahan, bukan sumber untuk kedua tingkat penyesalan.
