A Test of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mate Selection
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 112 (2) , 295-299
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1980.9924331
Abstract
The Psychoanalytic theory of mate selection postulates resemblance between a man's wife and his mother and between woman's husband and her father. Ethnicity of fathers and mothers was compared to ethnicity of spouses. The Ss were 577 brides and 403 grooms of mixed ethnic parentage married twice while living in Hawaii. Repeated observations of the same Ss revealed that parental images were probably important even after prolonged interactions with persons of the opposite sex. The data seemed to support the psychoanalytic theory of mate selection for both sexes.Keywords
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