Menstrual taboos and social rigidity

"Stephens' main predictor [of menstrual taboo], the composite score of anxiety, did hold up [replicate]" (105)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
tau	Supported	p<.05	.27	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Composite Score Of Anxiety	Association	Drives And Emotions
Menstrual Taboo	Association	Menstruation

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
Stephens, William N.	1962	"If menstrual taboos reflect castration anxiety, we would expect a positive correlation between scores on this composite predictor of castration anxiety and extensiveness of menstrual taboos" (113)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Stephens, William N.	1962	"Extensiveness of menstrual taboos is correlated with intensity of sex anxiety" (94)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Montgomery, Rita E.	1974	"Men as well as women observe prepartum taboos to ensure a successful delivery and a healthy child . . . [more frequently in cultures with low menstrual taboo scores than in cultures with high menstrual taboo scores]" (159)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Montgomery, Rita E.	1974	"Men are in attendance at birth, or else they are performing a special function elsewhere thought to ease the birth . . . [more frequently in cultures with low menstrual taboo scores that in cultures with high menstrual taboo scores]" (161)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author