Freudtheory onmate Selection

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Indirect Parental Influence on Mate Choice: A Test of the Psychoanalytic Theory

Davor Jedlicka

Journal of Marriage and Family

Vol. 46, No. 1 (Feb., 1984), pp. 65-70

(article consists of 6 pages)

Published by: National Council on Family Relations

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/351864

Journal of Marriage and Family © 1984 National Council on Family Relations

Abstract

Indirect parental influence on mate choice was ascertained using a recent population of brides and grooms of mixed parentage in Hawaii. With respect to nativity of parents, the influence of mothers on mate selection is greater than the influence of fathers. Simultaneously, mothers' influence on sons is greater than on daughters, and fathers' influence on daughters is greater than on sons. The data seemed to support