<![CDATA[Changes in young people’s orientations toward marriage increasingly reflect considerations of career, economic conditions, psychological readiness, partner compatibility, and personal autonomy. This study examines gamophobia as a multidimensional psychosocial phenomenon in the context of the individualization of marital decisions, gender constructions, and pre-family resilience in Indonesia. The study employed an integrative literature review of 40 sources published between 2001 and 2024, identified through Scopus, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and Google Scholar, supplemented by official institutional data and survey reports. Data were analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s six-phase reflexive thematic analysis and strengthened through source and theoretical triangulation, cross-checking of references, and an audit trail. First, gamophobia emerges within individualized marital decision-making, where career, economic conditions, psychological readiness, partner compatibility, and personal autonomy shape considerations of marriage. These changes do not necessarily indicate permissiveness but reflect a shift from marriage as a normative obligation toward a biographical choice. Declining marriage rates provide demographic context but do not establish gamophobia as their cause. Second, gamophobia is shaped by gender constructions and power relations that pressure men to conceal vulnerability while placing women under unequal relational expectations. Third, pre-family resilience can be strengthened through marital understanding, emotional readiness, self-efficacy, socio-religious support, and hope. The study contributes by integrating individualization theory, hegemonic masculinity, and resilience theory and proposing pre-family resilience as a preventive framework for fostering healthy, equitable, and adaptive marital relationships.]]>
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