TY - JOUR
T1 - In-Law Preferences in China and in Cyprus
T2 - Differences and Similarities
AU - Wang, Yan
AU - Apostolou, Menelaos
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - Across different times and cultures, parents exercise considerable influence over their children's mate choices. When they do so, parents are looking for specific traits in a prospective daughter- and son-in-law. Using a sample of 674 parents, the current research investigated in-law preferences in China. Participants rated 88 different traits, which were clustered in 10 different preference domains. In-law preferences were found to be contingent on the sex of the in-law and the sex of the parent. The data from the current study were compared with data from a different study which took place in the Republic of Cyprus. It was found that preferences varied in the two samples, but specific cultural differences were identified. It was also found that for both samples, the 10 different domains clustered in two supra-domains. The first supra-domain, where personality traits clustered, was preferred more by both Chinese and Greek-Cypriot parents than the second domain, where the rest of the traits clustered.
AB - Across different times and cultures, parents exercise considerable influence over their children's mate choices. When they do so, parents are looking for specific traits in a prospective daughter- and son-in-law. Using a sample of 674 parents, the current research investigated in-law preferences in China. Participants rated 88 different traits, which were clustered in 10 different preference domains. In-law preferences were found to be contingent on the sex of the in-law and the sex of the parent. The data from the current study were compared with data from a different study which took place in the Republic of Cyprus. It was found that preferences varied in the two samples, but specific cultural differences were identified. It was also found that for both samples, the 10 different domains clustered in two supra-domains. The first supra-domain, where personality traits clustered, was preferred more by both Chinese and Greek-Cypriot parents than the second domain, where the rest of the traits clustered.
KW - in-law preferences
KW - mate choice
KW - parental choice
KW - personality
KW - sex differences
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044754772&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1474704917725303
DO - 10.1177/1474704917725303
M3 - Article
C2 - 28868895
AN - SCOPUS:85044754772
SN - 1474-7049
VL - 15
JO - Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
JF - Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
IS - 3
ER -