Cultural and sex differences in touch avoidance |
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| Authors: | M S Remland T S Jones |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Speech Communication, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley 80639. |
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| Abstract: | 250 male and female respondents from American, Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and Far Eastern cultures completed a self-report measure of touch-avoidance. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated factors for opposite-sex and same-sex touch-avoidance. These factors were used as dependent variables in a 4 x 2 (culture by sex) multivariate analysis of variance which yielded a significant interaction of culture by sex on opposite-sex touch-avoidance and a main effect of the respondents' sex on same-sex touch-avoidance. |
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