Cultural Factors in the Selection of Marriage Mates

Hollingshead, August B.

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“…Men and women are likely to select mates who are like themselves on race, physical characteristics, religion, education, socioeconomic status, and many other traits (3)(4)(5). The phenomenon where people choose mates based on similar or dissimilar characteristics is known as assortative mating, and has many implications.…”

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Are Daughters of Alcoholics More Likely to Marry Alcoholics?

Schuckit

Tipp

Kelner

1994

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

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This study evaluates the relationship between having an alcoholic (i.e., alcohol-dependent) parent and the presence of a spouse with a similar diagnosis. Data relating to 708 men and 708 women, the parents ofthe questionnaire respondents, revealed that even after controlling for the increased rate of alcohol-dependent spouses among alcoholics, assortative mating appears to be associated with positive family histories of alcoholism. Within this sample, nonalcoholic daughters of alcoholics were more than twice as likely to marry an alcoholic as nonalcoholic daughters of nonalcoholics, irrespective of the alcoholic parent's gender. In contrast, in the same sample daughters of alcoholics did not demonstrate a higher rate for having a spouse with another ofthe more common psychiatric syndromes, a major depressive *To whom correspondence should be addressed at Department of Psychiatry 116A, University of California-San Diego, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, California 92161. 237 238SCHUCKIT, TIPP, AND KELNER episode. In this sample, sons of alcoholics did not demonstrate an increased rate for marrying an alcoholic when compared to sons of nonalcoholics.

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Are Daughters of Alcoholics More Likely to Marry Alcoholics?

Schuckit

Tipp

Kelner

1994

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

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“…SES is a reflection of homogamy for neighborhood. Indeed, the social class of the neighborhood lived in before marriage is highly correlated in spouses: Hollingshead (1950) reported a contingency coefficient of .71 for subjects living in New Haven, Connecticut.…”

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Models of spouse similarity: Applications to fluid ability measured in twins and their spouses

1996

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Genetic influences have consistently been reported to be the principal explanation for resemblance among relatives for intelligence, with shared environmental effects playing a much smaller role. However, crucial to understanding the nature of environmental influences are the mechanisms of assortative mating. Phenotypic assortment, albeit widely assumed or modeled in biometrical analyses, may be less important than other assortment processes, such as social homogamy. Consequently, effects of shared environment may play a greater role than prior studies have suggested. The goal of this study was to resolve environmental and genetic influences on fluid ability based on alternative models of assortment by examining the similarity of monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins and their spouses. Raven's Progressive Matrices scores were available from a population-based Swedish sample of 138 twin kinships. The effects of both social homogamy and phenotypic assortment were tested simultaneously in each of two alternate assortment models. A factor/delta path model represented social homogamy as a common factor and phenotypic assortment as a delta path, while a delta/delta path model represented both social homogamy and phenotypic assortment as delta paths. Overall, the factor/delta path model was found to be superior. Results suggested that social homogamy completely explained spouse similarity; phenotypic assortment was not significant. The results of these analyses suggest the presence of shared environmental effects among twins and their spouses, which would have been underestimated if only phenotypic modeled phenotypic assortment may have underestimated the effects of environment.

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“…A spouse is selected from the group of "easily accessible" people, with whom one keeps in touch daily (Hollingshead 1950;Winch 1958;Good 1964). Therefore, the frequency of contacts contributes, on the one hand, to the better assessment of the selected person and, on the other, to the better evaluation of one's own chances.…”

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The spatial nature of matrimonial behaviours

Janiszewska¹

2016

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Abstract:The work presents a research approach of behavioural geography to the analysis of man's spatial behaviours. Matrimonial behaviours constitute those which are influenced to a greater degree by behavioural factors (social status, education, nationality, religion) than spatial factors. Although in the process of marital selection, the future spouse's spatial features are important during selection, other features, such as demographic and social ones are also taken into consideration. This study presents selected theoretical approaches to marital selection. Yet another purpose thereof is to present and exemplify the spatial dimension of marital selection in Poland on different levels: of voivodeships, of city-village units and of cities (on the example of Łódź).

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Cultural Factors in the Selection of Marriage Mates

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Are Daughters of Alcoholics More Likely to Marry Alcoholics?

Are Daughters of Alcoholics More Likely to Marry Alcoholics?

Models of spouse similarity: Applications to fluid ability measured in twins and their spouses

The spatial nature of matrimonial behaviours

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