CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS OF COLLEGE STUDENT MARITAL-ROLE PREFERENCES.

The present study is a continuation of earlier investigations concerning marriage-role attitudes of Americans of Japanese and Caucasian ancestry and motherland Japanese. A total of 226 Ss (131 Caucasian-Americans and 95 Japanese-Americans) were tested. All Ss were students at the California State College at Los Angeles. Comparisons with previously collected data from Japanese, Japanese-Americans, and Caucasian Americans were made. To assess attitudes toward marriage a 28-item, five-choice scale, devised by Jacobson to measure male-dominant and equalitarian attitudes toward marriage, was used. Males generally were found to be more male dominant in marriage-role attitudes, and Japanese-American males in Hawaii (but not in Los Angeles) seemed notably high in this regard. Females generally have been found more equalitarian in attitude, and females in Japan (especially at high prestige universities and colleges) are strikingly so. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]