Avoidance, social affiliation, and the incest taboo

"Men avoid their parents-in-law in societies with a strong lineal emphasis but which have fragmented and impermanent family groups" (313)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Mann-Whitney U-Test	Supported	p<.05	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Avoidance Of Parents-in-law	Dependent	Parents-in-law And Children-in-law
Family Type	Independent	Family
Lineality	Independent	Kin Groups

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple	1966	"Women avoid their parents-in-law in the same type of situation [as men do], and in addition they are likely to avoid if the mother's brother has no role to play" (313)	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple	1966	"Residence proved to be unrelated to avoidance [of parents-in-law] by either husband or wife" (313)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple	1966	Contrary to the findings of William N. Stephens no significant association was found between avoidance and a long postpartum sex taboo (311)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Pans, A.E.M.J.	1998	Mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance will be positively associated with economic interaction between mother-in-law and son-in-law (74, 77).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Cozby, Paul C.	1971	". . . greater privacy would be associated with great [avoidance of] coresident mother-in-law . . ." (278)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author