Mother-in-law/son-in-law Avoidance

Associated Documents (1)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Witkowski, StanleyA cross-cultural test of the proximity hypothesis

Associated Hypotheses (2)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Witkowski, Stanley". . . residential propinquity influences a society's kin avoidance. . . . [There is an] association between mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance and [their] degree of community coresidence" (243, 247)
Witkowski, Stanley"The residential proximity hypothesis suggests that institutionalized avoidance practices should be more likely to occur when the avoiding parties are living in the same household than when they are just living in the same community." [Mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance increases with the degree of household co-residence] (249)

Associated OCMs

  1. parents-in-law and children-in-law