Snopkowski Kristin, Hasnain Annemarie M
Anthropology, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA.
Evol Hum Sci. 2025 Feb 7;7:e16. doi: 10.1017/ehs.2025.11. eCollection 2025.
Survey results have shown that the traits women seek in a partner are different from the traits parents seek in a son-in-law. These differences have been attributed to parent-offspring conflict, where parents prefer mates for their offspring who provide benefits to the entire family group, but adult women prefer traits in a potential partner that indicate heritable fitness (e.g. creativity, exciting personality). We compare the characteristics of husbands of women in self-choice and arranged marriages using data from the longitudinal Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) which surveyed families between 1993 and 2015. Results show that the husbands of women in arranged marriages had lower levels of completed education than those from self-choice marriages, counter to predictions. There were no significant differences in the husband's wealth prior to marriage or the proportion of couples who were of the same religion. An examination of personality traits showed little difference based on arranged marriage status. The only prediction that had significant support was that couples in arranged marriages were more likely to share an ethnic background than couples in self-choice marriages. These results suggest that the characteristics of husbands vary little by arranged versus self-choice marriage status, contrary to previous survey findings.
调查结果显示，女性在伴侣身上看重的特质与父母在女婿身上看重的特质有所不同。这些差异被归因于亲子冲突，即父母希望子女的伴侣能为整个家庭带来益处，而成人女性则更倾向于潜在伴侣身上那些表明具有可遗传适应性的特质（例如创造力、令人兴奋的个性）。我们利用印度尼西亚家庭生活纵向调查（IFLS）的数据，比较了自主选择婚姻和包办婚姻中女性丈夫的特征。该调查在1993年至2015年间对家庭进行了调查。结果显示，与预测相反，包办婚姻中女性的丈夫受教育程度低于自主选择婚姻中的丈夫。婚前丈夫的财富状况或夫妻同宗教的比例没有显著差异。对个性特质的考察表明，基于包办婚姻状况的差异不大。唯一得到有力支持的预测是，与自主选择婚姻的夫妻相比，包办婚姻的夫妻更有可能有相同的种族背景。这些结果表明，与之前的调查结果相反，包办婚姻和自主选择婚姻中丈夫的特征差异不大。
