3. Level of Education

Research suggests that those who have a higher level of education have a higher chance of staying married.

The website for the Bureau of Labor Statistics has a post that relates the results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979), which studied marriage and divorce patterns of a group of young baby boomers. The post reads:

“The chance of a marriage ending in divorce was lower for people with more education, with over half of marriages of those who did not complete high school having ended in divorce compared with approximately 30 percent of marriages of college graduates.”

Researchers also speculate that this could be because a lower level of education indicates a lower income, which means a more stressful and financially unstable home.

Psychologist Eli Finkel conveyed her thoughts to Business Insider:

“What I think is going on is it’s really difficult to have a productive, happy marriage when your life circumstances are so stressful and when your day-to-day life involves, say three or four bus routes in order to get to your job.”