Some correlates of beliefs in the malevolence and benevolence of supernatural beings:  a cross societal study

"Mothers visit pain upon children as a displaced aggression arising from the frustrations of particularly low status" (168)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Comparison of raw scores	Not Supported	Not Applicable	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Pain Inflicted By Mothers	Dependent	Infant Care
Status Of Women	Independent	Gender Status, Gender Roles And Issues

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Textor, Robert B.	1967	In societies where nurturing agents have high rates of pain infliction towards infants, female status will be inferior or subjected to male status (277, 324).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Prescott, James W.	1975	". . . societies which inflect pain and discomfort upon their infants tend to neglect them . . . [and are] more likely to practice slavery, polygamy, [have aggressive gods, and attribute inferior status to women]" (12)	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lambert, William W.	1959	"Societies with predominantly aggressive deities and with high pain in the treatment of infants have capricious gods; societies with . . . benevolent deities and with low pain in infant treatment lack capricious gods" (167)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Blum, Richard H.	1969	"When pain inflicted on the infant by the nurturant agent is high, then: [tobacco use is by both sexes]" (162)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Whiting, John W.M.	1965	"[When] we . . . correlated menarcheal age with the Landauer-Whiting measure of infant stress . . . pain and shaping did show a positive association" (226)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author