Menstrual taboos and social rigidity

"Rigidity and male dominance are associated [with menstrual taboos] to about the same degree, as would be expected" (103)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
tau	Supported	p<.01	.28	`UNKNOWN`

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Young, Frank W.	1967	"There is no change . . . when the effect of social rigidity is partialled out of the association between composite anxiety and menstrual taboo elaboration or when castration anxiety is partialled out of the association of rigidity or male dominance with menstrual taboos" (106)	Supported	5	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Young, Frank W.	1967	"If menstrual taboos amount to a form of institutionalized discrimination against women, then we should expect to find them in subcommunities where males are dominant and tightly organized" (100)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Young, Frank W.	1967	"Stephens' main predictor [of menstrual taboo], the composite score of anxiety, did hold up [replicate]" (105)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Young, Frank W.	1967	"Stephens reports that the postpartum taboo tends to be bimodally distributed. On the contrary, degree of elaboration of menstrual taboos is associated with increasing length of the postpartum taboo" (104)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Gray, J. Patrick	1981	Menstrual taboos are associated with straight line dominant art (38)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author