A Cross-Cultural Summary: Status of Women

In societies with high levels of sexual socialization anxiety, females will tend to have property rights (378, 311).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact Test	Supported	p = .048	Phi = .650	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Sexual Socialization Anxiety	Association	Sex Training
Female Property Rights	Association	Property System, Gender Status

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Textor, Robert B.	1967	There will tend to be a slight or overall absence of female property rights in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations (389, 278).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hines, Dwight	1974	"In middle childhood . . . odor references [in folktales] was negatively related to: socialization anxiety, anal socialization anxiety, sexual socialization anxiety . . . and mean socialization anxiety" (4,5)	Supported	5	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Shirley, Robert W.	1962	"Love magic is most elaborated in societies with high sexual anxiety" (1028)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Whiting, John W.M.	1953	"[There is a] relation between anal socialization anxiety and anal explanations of illness; . . . between sexual socialization anxiety and sexual explanations of illness" (158, 159)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	There will tend to be lower levels of social anxiety in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations (389, 308).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author