INVESTIGADORES
CASTRO SOLANO Alejandro
artículos
Título:
Conflicting Preferences of Parents and Offspring Over Criteria for a Mate: A Study in Argentina
Autor/es:
BUUNK, B., CASTRO SOLANO, A.
Revista:
Journal of Family Psychology
Editorial:
American Psychological Association
Referencias:
Lugar: Washington; Año: 2010 vol. 24 p. 391 - 399
ISSN:
0893-3200
Resumen:
Current evolutionary research on human mating has largely ignored the fact that matingdecisions may be heavily influenced by parents. Recent research, however, shows that parentsand children may have conflicting mate preferences. Specifically, parents tend to have arelatively stronger preference for children to pair with mates with characteristics signalinghigh parental investment and cooperation with the in-group, whereas children tend to have arelatively stronger preference to pair with mates with characteristics signaling genetic quality.The present research among 242 young adults from Argentina showed that in this country thesame parent? offspring conflict was observed as had been found previously in North America,the Netherlands, Uruguay, and Kurdistan. This result provides additional support for theuniversal character of this type of conflict. In addition, the present research expanded previouswork by showing that the two conflict dimensions were indeed psychometrically independent,and that more conflict was reported by older and married participants. In addition, moreconflict was reported among women who were more in favor of parental control over matechoice and among men who were higher in social comparison orientation.