Female physiology and female puberty rites

Extensive menstrual taboos will be positively associated with emic emphasis on the initiate's change in body, status, or behavior (140-141)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
tau-b	Supported	p<.001	tau-b=.369	One-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Emic Emphasis On Initiate's Change In Body/status/behavior	Dependent	Puberty And Initiation
Menstrual Taboo, Extensive	Independent	Menstruation

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Kitahara, Michio	1984	Extensive menstrual taboos are positively associated with individual female puberty rites (138)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kitahara, Michio	1984	Extensive menstrual taboos will be positively associated with only women as initiating adults (140)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kitahara, Michio	1984	Societies with extensive menstrual taboos are positively associated with individual female puberty rites (137)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Anderson, Judith L.	1992	Cultures will have a plump standard of beauty when women's work is not valued highly, or when women are restricted in the times and situations in which they can work (207).	Some support	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Schlegel, Alice	1972	". . . menstrual restrictions are associated with the status of women; i.e., that menstrual restrictions are more severe in Types I and II and/or IV and V than in Type III societies" (26) [See Comments for definitions of types]	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author