The relationship of child rearing practices to societal "tightness" and "looseness"

Journal of Comparative Family Studies • Vol/Iss. 6 • Published In • Pages: 273-282 •
By Hutter, Mark, Pelto, Pertti J.

Hypothesis

"A positive relationships exists between satisfaction potential for the five dimensions of child-training practices and tight-lose societies, and a negative relationship between socialization anxiety potential and tight-loose societies" (280).

Note

Due to the small sample size, no test of significance is reported. Relationships in the expected predictions were noted for all variables tested.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
tauSupportedUNKNOWNUNKNOWNUNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Satisfaction PotentialDependentSocialization
Socialization AnxietyDependentSocialization
Tightness/loosenessIndependentNorms

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