Assortative mating in a Spanish population: effects of social factors and cohabitation time

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Sánchez-Andrés ◽  
M. S. Mesa
Keyword(s):  
Body Composition ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Spanish Population ◽  
Marriage Duration ◽  
Population Effects ◽  
Spousal Similarity

SummaryAssortative mating for 22 anthropometric and body composition characteristics and social indicators was studied in a Spanish sample of 114 married couples. Significant spousal similarity was found for occupation, educational level and number of siblings. Sex–age adjusted spouse correlations were significant for stature, ileospinal height, total arm length, and biacromial breadth. Spouse correlations were not altered after allowance for socioeconomic effects. When couples were grouped according to marriage duration, differences in mate correlations for fatness were detected, suggesting a cohabitational effect on spouse resemblance.

No decline in assortative mating for educational level

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Heath ◽  
K. Berg ◽  
L. J. Eaves ◽  
M. H. Solaas ◽  
J. Sundet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Educational Level

scholarly journals Mortality due to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and associated social factors: a spatial analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thatiana Araújo Maranhão ◽  
Carlos Henrique Alencar ◽  
Mônica de Avelar Figueiredo Mafra Magalhães ◽  
George Jó Bezerra Sousa ◽  
Leonardo Miranda Ribeiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Ecological Study ◽  
Spatial Regression ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Income Generation ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Acquired Immunodeficiency ◽  
Immunodeficiency Syndrome

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the spatial pattern of AIDS mortality and social factors associated with its occurrence. Methods: An ecological study that considered 955 AIDS deaths of residents in Piauí, reported in the Mortality Information System (MIS) from 2007 to 2015. Non-spatial and spatial regression models were used to identify social determinants of AIDS mortality, with a significance of 5%. Results: The predictors of AIDS mortality were illiteracy rate in males (p = 0.020), proportion of households with water supply (p = 0.015), percentage of people in households with inadequate walls (p = 0.022), percentage of people in households vulnerable to poverty and in whom no one has completed primary education (p = 0.000) and percentage of people in households vulnerable to poverty and dependent on the elderly (p = 0.009). Conclusion: Social indicators related to education, job and income generation and housing were associated with AIDS mortality.

The Role of Personality and Intelligence in Assortative Mating

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 680-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Escorial ◽  
Carmen Martín-Buro
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Big Five Model ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Effect Of Age

Assortative mating is the individuals' tendency to mate with those who are similar to them in some variables, at a higher rate than would be expected from random. This study aims to provide empirical evidence of assortative mating through the Big Five model of personality and two measures of intelligence using Spanish samples. The sample consisted of 244 Spanish couples. It was divided into two groups according to relationship time. The effect of age, educational level and socioeconomic status was controlled. The results showed strong assortative mating for intelligence and moderate for personality. The strongest correlations for Personality were found in Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness.

EVIDENCE FOR ASSORTATIVE MATING ON DIGIT RATIO (2D:4D), A BIOMARKER FOR PRENATAL ANDROGEN EXPOSURE

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTIN VORACEK ◽  
STEFAN G. DRESSLER ◽  
JOHN T. MANNING
Keyword(s):  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Digit Ratio ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Androgen Exposure ◽  
The Right ◽  
Prenatal Androgen ◽  
Spousal Similarity

SummaryThe second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) presents an anatomical sex difference in humans. On average, men tend to have lower 2D:4D compared with women. There is fairly strong evidence for a role of the 2D:4D ratio as a biomarker for the organizational (permanent) effects of prenatal testosterone on the brain and behaviour. Recently, an accumulating research programme has shown 2D:4D to be related to a multitude of sex-dependent, hormonally influenced biosocial traits and phenotypes which reach into the domains of ability, behaviour, fertility, health, personality and sexuality. This study investigated the degree of assortative mating (spousal similarity) in a sample of 239 native Austrian couples of parental or grandparental age, all of them having reproduced. Results included: (i) significant spousal correlations of +0·19 and +0·18 for right-hand and left-hand 2D:4D, respectively, and +0·24 for average 2D:4D; (ii) no assortative mating effect on the right-minus-left difference in 2D:4D; (iii) indications consistent with a possible generational decrease of spousal similarity in 2D:4D; (iv) a prevalence of couples with a lower right-hand 2D:4D observed in the husband compared with his wife; and (v) relations of spousal 2D:4D patterns to spousal age differences, such that matings of men with more male-typical trait expressions (namely, a generally low right-hand 2D:4D or showing a lower right-minus-left 2D:4D difference than their wives) implicated larger male-minus-female age differences, i.e. younger wives. It is argued that assortative mating on 2D:4D operates indirectly and may be mediated through the assortment on other, more perceptible, physical traits and psychological phenotypes that entertain associations with 2D:4D and are relevant for courtship and mate choice.

scholarly journals The Role of Lifestyle and Psycho-Social Factors in Predicting Changes in Body Composition in Black South African Women

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. e0132914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Jean-Luc Gradidge ◽  
Shane A. Norris ◽  
Lisa K. Micklesfield ◽  
Nigel J. Crowther
Keyword(s):  
Body Composition ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
African Women ◽  
Black South African ◽  
South African Women

Relationship of Residence, Education, and Socialization to Cognitive Tasks in Normal People of Advanced Old Age

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 423-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Cognitive Tasks ◽  
Dependent Care ◽  
Normal People ◽  
Qualitative Responses ◽  
Relationship Of

40 aged residents of a dependent care facility were tested on a series of cognitive conservation tasks. A decrement toward lowered levels of cognitive functioning was noted but specific psycho-social factors were related to this decline. Length of residence in dependent context and involvement in socialization and leisure activities were significantly related to level of cognitive functioning and were independent of sex. However, attained educational level was positively related to cognitive conservation for females but not for males. Analysis of qualitative responses to tasks suggests important considerations.

scholarly journals AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF VARIATION IN SPANISH DIMINUTIVES.

Dialectologia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ellingson EDDINGTON
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
Base Word ◽  
Country Specific

In an online survey, 656 Spanish speakers from 21 countries were asked to select between the long and short diminutive forms of 100 base words (e.g. novio > novito, noviecito). The influence of the base word, the base word’s frequency, and the country of origin, gender, age, and educational level of the speakers were assessed. The most salient finding is that words have different diminutive forms depending on the country the speaker is from. However, a great deal of variation exists within each country, and few participants prefer the same diminutive form for all base words with a similar structure. Moreover, the influence of age, gender, and educational level is also apparent for certain classes of words. Country-specific analyses of the data from Spain and Mexico were also performed which confirms the influence of social factors on diminutivization.

scholarly journals Social Factors Influencing Entrepreneurship A Study On With Special Reference To Theni District

2021 ◽  
pp. 314-322
Author(s):  
Dr. S. Iruthaya Kalai Selvam ◽  
Asha Banu
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Political System ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Strategy

Entrepreneurship is not an inborn skill; it is a product of environment. It involves a complex of economic and social behaviour. To be successful, an entrepreneur has to remain dynamic and responsible to the whole environment. Entrepreneurship can hardly survive under any given circumstances. It can flourish only under right environment. The social factors, culture, government policies, political system, technology, economic conditions, laws, etc influence the growth of entrepreneurship. In fact, the entrepreneurship cannot be kept aloof from the changing social values, ideologies, new emerging aspirations, environmental pressures, religious beliefs, consumer wants, and society needs. Business is a system made up of certain environmental factors which require the entrepreneurs to adopt a dynamic attitude and a new strategy of their own. The paper is tackling the issue of social factors such as Gender, age, caste, Location of the units, Income, educational level, influencing the development of entrepreneurship in Theni District.

scholarly journals The social factors related to girls’ attitude towards conspicuous consumption - Field study on Qassim University students – Saudi Arabia –: العوامل الاجتماعية المرتبطة باتجاه الفتيات نحو الاستهلاك التفاخري – دراسة ميدانية على طالبات جامعة القصيم - السعودية –

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatimah Abdullah Al-Suhaibani
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
The Social

The aim of this research is to identify some of the social factors related to the girls ’attitude towards conspicuous consumption. These factors represent the place of residence, the prevailing pattern of consumption among family members, the educational level of the parents and the occupation of parents. This research relied on the social survey method and questionnaire as a tool to collect data. The sample consisted of 216 Qassim University female students from various disciplines. The research reached several results, namely: that the trend of the sample towards conspicuous consumption is "weak", in addition to the absence of a relationship between the trend towards conspicuous consumption and each of the (place of residence, the prevailing pattern of consumption among family members, the educational level of parents, the occupation of parents) factors. The research highlights the importance of maintaining a low trend towards conspicuous consumption by spreading awareness by educational institutions, media and others, in addition to conducting more extensive studies on " conspicuous consumption" to cover the problem in all its aspects.

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