Respect for the elderly in preindustrial societies as related to their activity

Among independent families, there is an association between respect for the elderly and their socially valued activities (320).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Supported	p<.01	Q = .70	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Elderly's Socially Valued Activities	Independent	Activities Of The Aged, Status And Treatment Of The Aged
Independent Families	Independent	Household, Nuclear Family
Respect For The Elderly	Dependent	Status And Treatment Of The Aged

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
McArdle, Joan L.	1981	In societies without slavery, there is an association between respect for the elderly and their socially valued activities (320).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
McArdle, Joan L.	1981	In societies where there is no belief in a single authoritarian god, there is an association between respect for the elderly and their socially valued activities (320).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
McArdle, Joan L.	1981	Societal respect for the elderly will be associated with the social value of their activity (312, 320).	Supported	0	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sheils, Howard Dean	1971	"The relationship of monogamy and independent families to societal complexity is more adequately described by a curvilinear model than by a linear model" (221)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Silverman, Philip	1978	There will be a “substantial difference in deference behavior directed towards the elderly according to their sex” (104).	Partially supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author