Premarital Sexual Intercourse: A Substantive Test of the Contingent Consistency Model  

Oleh:

Clayton, Richard R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 34 no. 02 (May 1972), page 273.

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A theoretical model of Contingent Consistency relative to the attitudes-behavior dilemma was constructed and substantively tested using premarital intercourse as a dependent variable. Using Coleman's multivariate analysis technique it was found that general attitudes (religiosity on three dimensions) accounted for substantially higher proportions of variation for males than females. Personal attitudinal permissiveness (a behavior-specific attitude) accounted for significant proportions of variation regardless of sex. Using Kemper's typology from reference group theory it was found that perceived norms of permissiveness in the respondents' comparison reference groups were of little influence on sexual behavior for either sex while perceived normative reference group standards were of substantial influence for males and of little influence for females. Overall,significant interaction effects were so rare as to suggest that these substantive variables operate additively rather than in interaction. The average random shocks value was about 12 per cent for both males and females indicating that substantial amounts of variation in the dependent variable were accounted for by these variables.In other words, there was considerable evidence to support an additive Contingent Consistency model.

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