Wang Yan, Apostolou Menelaos
1 Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
2 University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Evol Psychol. 2017 Jul-Sep;15(3):1474704917725303. doi: 10.1177/1474704917725303.
Across different times and cultures, parents exercise considerable influence over their children's mate choices. When they do so, parents are looking for specific traits in a prospective daughter- and son-in-law. Using a sample of 674 parents, the current research investigated in-law preferences in China. Participants rated 88 different traits, which were clustered in 10 different preference domains. In-law preferences were found to be contingent on the sex of the in-law and the sex of the parent. The data from the current study were compared with data from a different study which took place in the Republic of Cyprus. It was found that preferences varied in the two samples, but specific cultural differences were identified. It was also found that for both samples, the 10 different domains clustered in two supra-domains. The first supra-domain, where personality traits clustered, was preferred more by both Chinese and Greek-Cypriot parents than the second domain, where the rest of the traits clustered.
在不同的时代和文化背景下，父母对子女的择偶选择有着相当大的影响。当父母这样做时，他们会在未来的女婿或儿媳身上寻找特定的特质。本研究以674名父母为样本，调查了中国的姻亲偏好。参与者对88种不同的特质进行了评分，这些特质被归为10个不同的偏好领域。研究发现，姻亲偏好取决于姻亲的性别和父母的性别。本研究的数据与塞浦路斯共和国另一项研究的数据进行了比较。结果发现，两个样本中的偏好有所不同，但也发现了具体的文化差异。研究还发现，对于两个样本来说，10个不同的领域都归为两个超领域。第一个超领域聚集了个性特质，中国和塞浦路斯希腊族的父母都比第二个聚集了其他特质的领域更倾向于这个超领域。
