Tightness/looseness

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Hutter, MarkThe relationship of child rearing practices to societal "tightness" and "looseness"
Harrington, Jesse R.Culture and National well-being: should societies emphasize freedom or constraint?

Associated Hypotheses (10)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Hutter, Mark"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).
Harrington, Jesse R.The relationship between tightness/looseness and happiness will exhibit a curvilinear relationship, such that very tight and very loose nations have worse outcomes relative to nations intermediate on tightness-looseness
Harrington, Jesse R.The relationship between tightness/looseness and dysthymia depression will exhibit a curvilinear relationship, such that very tight and very loose nations have worse outcomes relative to nations intermediate on tightness-looseness
Harrington, Jesse R.The relationship between tightness/looseness and suicide rate will exhibit a curvilinear relationship, such that very tight and very loose nations have worse outcomes relative to nations intermediate on tightness-looseness
Harrington, Jesse R.The relationship between tightness/looseness and life expectancy will exhibit a curvilinear relationship, such that very tight and very loose nations have worse outcomes relative to nations intermediate on tightness-looseness
Harrington, Jesse R.The relationship between tightness/looseness and mortality rates for cardiovascular disease and diabetes will exhibit a curvilinear relationship, such that very tight and very loose nations have worse outcomes relative to nations intermediate on tightness-looseness
Harrington, Jesse R.The relationship between tightness/looseness and gross domestic product (GDP) will exhibit a curvilinear relationship, such that very tight and very loose nations have worse outcomes relative to nations intermediate on tightness-looseness
Harrington, Jesse R.The relationship between tightness/looseness and political instability will exhibit a curvilinear relationship, such that very tight and very loose nations have worse outcomes relative to nations intermediate on tightness-looseness
Harrington, Jesse R.The relationship between tightness/looseness and the composite score of all 8 (dependent) variables, such that very tight and very loose nations have worse outcomes relative to nations intermediate on tightness-looseness
Harrington, Jesse R.Results will not change when controlling for income disparity (GINI) and cultural individualism

Associated OCMs

  1. norms
  2. social control
  3. government regulation
  4. legal norms