Using a multiple regression model, this article looks at seven customs that are associated with a high degree of premarital sexual freedom of adolescents. Each of the customs is shown to have an independently statistically significant association with premarital sexual freedom.

Using a multiple regression model, this article looks at seven customs that are associated with a high degree of premarital sexual freedom of adolescents. Each of the customs is shown to have an independently statistically significant association with premarital sexual freedom.

Using a multiple regression model, this article looks at seven customs that are associated with a high degree of premarital sexual freedom of adolescents. Each of the customs is shown to have an independently statistically significant association with premarital sexual freedom.

Using a multiple regression model, this article looks at seven customs that are associated with a high degree of premarital sexual freedom of adolescents. Each of the customs is shown to have an independently statistically significant association with premarital sexual freedom.

Using a multiple regression model, this article looks at seven customs that are associated with a high degree of premarital sexual freedom of adolescents. Each of the customs is shown to have an independently statistically significant association with premarital sexual freedom.

In this article, the authors seek to understand the trajectory of traditional political institutions in Africa and ask how these institutions have changed, if at all, due to colonial interference. They note that "institutions connect the past with the present", though the study of political institutions over time is often overlooked in discussions of institutional persistence and change despite their value to key components of governance and social stability. Thus, these authors investigate whether today's African institutions remain akin to their precolonial, institutional ancestors, and whether colonial governance strategies of indirect or direct rule employed by the British and French have impacted their persistence. They find evidence to support the endurance of traditional institutions in former British colonies (upward trend), whereas evidence for institutional destruction for former French colonies (downward trend).

This study focuses on variables associated with the subordination of community government. A detailed discussion of the specific relationships is presented.

This chapter investigates the various socioeconomic variables that are associated with matrilineal and patrilineal institutions. Several variables were found to correlate significantly with matrilineal and patrilineal institutions.

Based on work by Rosenblatt (1966), this article tests a hypothesis relating sexual freedom to romantic love. Findings suggest a relationship between premarital and extramarital sexual permissiveness equality for women and men and romantic love.

Feuding and other responses to malfeasance are examined cross-culturally. The geographic distribution of responses are presented and odds ratios/logistic regression models are employed in analyzing the effect of socio-economic, historical and ecological variables on responses to malfeasance. Codes are included.