Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context

IF 3 1区 心理学 Q1 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106612
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Parental influence over mate choice and marriage is a norm across many cultures and throughout human history; however, more attention has been given to preferences of the mating individuals than to the preferences of parents selecting a son- or daughter-in-law. Using data collected in Nepal, a culture with a tradition of arranged marriages, we compare the preferences of unmarried adults and parents of unmarried adults using a budget allocation task in which respondents allocated two budgets (high and low) to design their ideal spouse or in-law from a set of 14 traits. To compare overall similarities and differences in allocations across all 14 traits, we calculated the Mahalanobis Distance for each dyad type (father-son, father-daughter, mother-son, and mother-daughter) for high and low budgets separately. Parents and offspring disagreed more in high budget allocations than in low budget allocations, indicating that they may agree more on the minimally necessary traits in a spouse/in-law. Parents and offspring showed the largest divergence in allocations over same caste/ethnicity (preferred more by parents) and physical attractiveness (preferred more by offspring), in line with previous comparisons of parent and offspring preferences. Differences in the preferences of parents and offspring were at least as large as differences in preferences between men and women in this sample, indicating that parent-offspring disagreement is substantial and should be given more consideration in the literature on mate choice. Additional research is needed to investigate how parents and offspring negotiate their preferences in arranged marriage contexts.

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包办婚姻中后代和父母对配偶或姻亲的偏好
在人类历史上,父母对择偶和婚姻的影响是许多文化中的一种常态;然而,人们更多关注的是交配个体的偏好,而不是父母选择儿子或儿媳的偏好。尼泊尔是一个有着包办婚姻传统的国家,我们利用在尼泊尔收集到的数据,通过预算分配任务比较了未婚成年人和未婚成年人父母的偏好,在这个任务中,受访者分配了两种预算(高和低),从 14 种特征中设计他们理想的配偶或姻亲。为了比较所有 14 个特质在分配上的整体异同,我们分别计算了每个组合类型(父子、父女、母子和母女)在高预算和低预算上的马哈拉诺比斯距离(Mahalanobis Distance)。父母和子女在高预算分配中的分歧比低预算分配中更大,这表明他们可能在配偶/姻亲的最低必要特质上有更多的共识。父母和后代在同一种姓/种族(父母更偏好)和外貌吸引力(后代更偏好)方面的分配差异最大,这与之前父母和后代偏好的比较结果一致。在这一样本中,父母和后代的偏好差异至少与男女之间的偏好差异一样大,这表明父母和后代之间的分歧很大,在择偶文献中应给予更多的考虑。还需要进行更多的研究,以调查在包办婚姻的背景下,父母和后代是如何协商他们的偏好的。
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Evolution and Human Behavior
Evolution and Human Behavior 生物-行为科学
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8.30
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9.80%
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62
审稿时长
82 days
期刊介绍: Evolution and Human Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal, presenting research reports and theory in which evolutionary perspectives are brought to bear on the study of human behavior. It is primarily a scientific journal, but submissions from scholars in the humanities are also encouraged. Papers reporting on theoretical and empirical work on other species will be welcome if their relevance to the human animal is apparent.
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