Adolescents' Opposite-Sex Ideal in Four Countries
- 1 August 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 136 (4) , 531-537
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1996.9714035
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.Keywords
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