The relationship of certain group-oriented and individualistically oriented child-rearing dimensions to cultural complexity in a cross-cultural sample

Socialization anxiety related to performance or nonperformance of a task will be correlated with cultural complexity (p. 16).

Very few correlations were statistically significant.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Difference of means	Not Supported	p<.05	chi-squared = 4.80	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Cultural Complexity	Association	Agriculture, Territorial Hierarchy
Socialization Anxiety	Association	Aggression Training, Independence Training, Socialization, Techniques Of Socialization

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Hines, Dwight	1974	"In middle childhood . . . odor references [in folktales] was negatively related to: socialization anxiety, anal socialization anxiety, sexual socialization anxiety . . . and mean socialization anxiety" (4,5)	Supported	5	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Whiting, John W.M.	1953	"[There is a] relation between aggression socialization anxiety and aggressive explanations of illness" (161)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Shirley, Robert W.	1962	"Love magic is most elaborated in societies with high sexual anxiety" (1028)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Zern, David	1983	Pressure to conform (to obey, nurture, or be responsible) will be positively correlated with cultural complexity, and pressure to function independently (to achieve, be self-reliant and independent) will be negatively correlated (p.15-6).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Whiting, John W.M.	1953	"Societies low in oral socialization anxiety tend not to have oral explanations of illness and . . . societies high in oral socialization anxiety do tend to have oral explanations of illness" (157, 164)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author