A Cross-Cultural Summary: Premarital Sexual Relations

There will tend to be lower levels of sex anxiety in societies freely permitting or with weak punishments for premarital sexual relations (390, 398).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact Test	Supported	p = .015	Phi = .420	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Premarital Sexual Relations	Association	Premarital Sex Relations
Sex Anxiety	Association	Drives And Emotions

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Textor, Robert B.	1967	There will tend to be lower levels of social anxiety in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations (389, 308).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Broude, Gwen J.	1975	There is a relationship between premarital sex norms and sex anxiety in adulthood as measured by the Minturn, Grosse and Haider (1969) scale (387, 388)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Broude, Gwen J.	1975	"If norms of premarital sexual behavior are related to sex anxiety, they would be expected to correlate highly with a scale measuring degree of sex anxiety in childhood" (386)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	The permission of extramarital sexual relations will be more common in societies with lower levels of castration anxiety (393, 399).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	There will tend to be no sexual illness explanations in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations (389, 404).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author