1. Adolescents' opposite-sex ideal in four countries.
- Author
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Gibbons JL, Richter RR, Wiley DC, and Stiles DA
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Choice Behavior, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Female, Guatemala, Humans, Iceland, Male, Mexico, Social Values, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States, Courtship, Gender Identity, Psychology, Adolescent
- Abstract
Six hundred young adolescents (11 to 16 years old) from 4 countries (Guatemala, Iceland, Mexico, and the United States) ranked the importance of 10 qualities of the opposite-sex ideal person. Those from the United States responded in an individualistic fashion; they ranked being fun, being sexy, and having considerable money as important for the ideal. Those from Guatemala responded in a collectivistic fashion; they ranked liking children as important, but being fun and good looking as unimportant. Adolescents from Mexico and Iceland reported patterns of values not clearly associated with either collectivism or individualism.
- Published
- 1996
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