The mother-in-law taboo

Mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance will be positively associated with economic interaction between mother-in-law and son-in-law (74, 77).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher’s exact test	Supported	p<.005	phi = .67	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Mother/son-in-law Avoidance	Association	Parents-in-law And Children-in-law
Mother/son-in-law Economic Interaction	Association	Parents-in-law And Children-in-law

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Witkowski, Stanley	1972	". . . residential propinquity influences a society's kin avoidance. . . . [There is an] association between mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance and [their] degree of community coresidence" (243, 247)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Witkowski, Stanley	1972	"The residential proximity hypothesis suggests that institutionalized avoidance practices should be more likely to occur when the avoiding parties are living in the same household than when they are just living in the same community." [Mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance increases with the degree of household co-residence] (249)	Not 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
Stephens, William N.	1962	"We predicted a positive correlation between duration of the post partum sex taboo and severity of [mother-in-law] avoidance" (132)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1971	"Tylor advanced the plausible hypothesis that mother-in-law avoidance should be highly correlated with matrilocal residence" (366)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author