Child training and personality: a cross-cultural study

Yale University Press • New Haven • Published In • Pages: 353 •
By Whiting, John W.M., Child, Irvin L.

Hypothesis

"[There is a] relation between anal socialization anxiety and anal explanations of illness; . . . between sexual socialization anxiety and sexual explanations of illness" (158, 159)

Note

These variables were measured separately; neither relationship was significant

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Difference of meansNot Supportedabove .10UNKNOWNUNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Anal And Sexual Explanations Of IllnessDependentTheory Of Disease
Anal And Sexual Socialization AnxietyIndependentCleanliness Training, Sex Training

Related Hypotheses

Main AuthorHypothesis
Prothro, E. TerryFindings: A factor analysis of permissiveness yielded three unrelated factors. Factor 1, "aggression-hypochondria" loaded heavily and positively on sexual and aggression anxiety, anal and aggression illness explanations, and fear of human beings. This factor loaded heavily and negatively on initial indulgence for aggression (152)
Prothro, E. TerryFindings: A factor analysis of permissiveness yielded three unrelated factors. Factor 2 in the permissiveness factor analysis "orality-sexuality", loaded heavily and positively on oral and dependence explanations for illness and oral socialization anxiety. This factor loaded heavily and negatively on initial oral indulgence and sexual socialization anxiety (152)
Whiting, John W.M."[There is a] relation between aggression socialization anxiety and aggressive explanations of illness" (161)
Whiting, John W.M.". . . explanations of illness [oral, anal, sexual, dependence, aggression] tend to be related to low initial satisfaction of the corresponding system of behavior" (167, 168)
Whiting, John W.M."Societies low in oral socialization anxiety tend not to have oral explanations of illness and . . . societies high in oral socialization anxiety do tend to have oral explanations of illness" (157, 164)