A cross-cultural study of folk-tale content and drinking

"…alcoholic societies may show some preoccupations in the oral mode" (62)

Two of five oral theme variables (eating and oral body part) are significantly and positively related to drinking.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Correlation	Partially supported	p<.10	`UNKNOWN`	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Drinking	Dependent	Alcoholic Beverages, Alcoholism And Drug Addiction
Orality (folktale Themes)	Independent	Verbal Arts, Literature, Literary Texts, Texts Translated Into English

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Child, Irvin L.	1965	"Factor I, Integrated Drinking is primarily weighted on: frequency of drinking as religious ritual, frequency of ceremonial drinking, extent of ritualization, quantity of ceremonial drinking, quantity of drinking as religious ritual, approval of drinking, extent of drinking" (27)	Supported	7	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Klausner, Samuel Z.	1964	There will be a negative association between alcoholism and ceremonial drinking (32).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bacon, Margaret K.	1965	"A high frequency of ceremonial drinking tends to be characteristic of societies whose drinking customs extend back into aboriginal times" (39)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Child, Irvin L.	1965	"Societies with a definite sex difference were preponderantly higher than those without evidence of a sex difference in frequency of ceremonial drinking and tended to be higher in frequency of religious drinking and in approval of drinking" (57)	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Child, Irvin L.	1965	"Factor III, Hostility Associated with Drinking, is primarily weighted on: typical intensity of hostility, extent of change in hostility, occurrence of extreme hostility" (27)	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author