The oedipus complex:  cross-cultural evidence

"I predicted that [father expecting to be the main disciplinarian] would be correlated positively with extensiveness of menstrual taboos" (108)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Supported	p<.05	`UNKNOWN`	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Extensiveness Of Menstrual Taboo	Dependent	Menstruation
Father The Main Disciplinarian	Independent	Techniques Of Socialization

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Stephens, William N.	1962	"Extensiveness of menstrual taboos is correlated with intensity of sex anxiety" (94)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Stephens, William N.	1962	"There is a negative correlation between diffusion of nurturance and extensiveness of menstrual taboos" (100)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Stephens, William N.	1962	"I . . . predicted a positive correlation between severity of punishment for disobedience and extensiveness of menstrual taboos" (108)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Young, Frank W.	1967	"Stephens' main predictor [of menstrual taboo], the composite score of anxiety, did hold up [replicate]" (105)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Stephens, William N.	1962	"Extensiveness of menstrual taboos . . . correlates positively with the duration of the post partum sex taboo" (97)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author