Cultural correlates of the regulation of premarital sex behavior

"The evidence . . . clearly demonstrates an association between norms of premarital sex behavior and beliefs concerning a high god" (406-407)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Comparison of raw scores	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Belief In A High God	Independent	Spirits And Gods
Premarital Sex Norms	Dependent	Premarital Sex Relations

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Broude, Gwen J.	1975	"Societies characterized by high accessibility of caretakers [child care] will have permissive premarital sex norms. Societies characterized by low accessibility of caretakers will ave restrictive premarital sex norms" (393)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1964	"Logically, we might expect to find restrictive norms of premarital sex behavior with political complexity and permissive norms with simple political systems" (405)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1964	"Complexity of techniques in subsistence economy . . . favors the development of restrictive norms of premarital sex behavior" (402)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Broude, Gwen J.	1975	There is a relationship between premarital sex norms and sex anxiety in adulthood as measured by the Minturn, Grosse and Haider (1969) scale (387, 388)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Broude, Gwen J.	1975	"If norms of premarital sexual behavior are related to sex anxiety, they would be expected to correlate highly with a scale measuring degree of sex anxiety in childhood" (386)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author