Conceptions of marriage readiness and marital quality indicators for future wellbeing among emerging adult students in the university of buea, Cameroon

While marriage is still strongly held as a major transition event for young people moving through emerging adulthood to full adult status, their conceptions of readiness are diverse, and individually socio-culturally rooted but also contested. Where perceptions not contested, beliefs about what it means be ready somewhat paradoxical in most cases. This paper presents descriptive data on youth-held readiness, the pathways marital quality indicators future wellbeing among some adults University Buea Cameroon. A sample 124 adults, aged 18-30 responded an adapted Criteria Marriage Readiness questionnaire whose reliability was 0.848. Data showed that 72.9% respondents felt criteria defined study were necessary readiness; whereas 27.1% did see necessary. Sought whether important at level wellbeing, 48.7% very important, 18.6% said quite 17% maintained slightly while 15.7% all important. Generally, thinking against satisfaction function lives adults. It concluded them do only connote further predict wellbeing.