The relevance of family cohesiveness as a determinant of premarital sexual behavior in a cross-cultural sample

". . . high lineal societies should be relatively more restrictive when it comes to pregnancy" (6)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Not Supported	p<.05	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Lineal Societies	Independent	Kinship Terminology
Restrictions On Premarital Pregnancy	Dependent	Premarital Sex Relations

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Zern, David	1969	". . . presence of a high lineal sense will be related to large differences between the values of a society [with regard to premarital sex and pregnancy] and their actual behavior . . ." (6)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Zern, David	1969	"There is a [negative] correlation between intercourse permissiveness for women and the lineality of the society . . ." (3)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	There will tend to be wife-lending or wife-borrowing in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations or only punishing upon a resulting pregnancy (391, 279).	Marginally Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lester, David	1970	Adolescent suicide will be associated with values and norms for premarital intercourse and pregnancy (132).	Not Supported	5	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"[There is] a relationship between norms of premarital sex behavior [as a measure of sex anxiety] and duration of the sex taboo during pregnancy. [Strict norms tend to result in long duration]" (122)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author