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Title: | Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective |
Authors: | Sorokowska, Agnieszka Saluja, Supreet Sorokowski, Piotr Frąckowiak, Tomasz Karwowski, Maciej Aavik, Toivo Akello, Grace Alm, Charlotte Amjad, Naumana Anjum, Afifa Asao, Kelly Atama, Chiemezie S. Atamtürk Duyar, Derya Ayebare, Richard Batres, Carlota Bendixen, Mons Bensafia, Aicha Bizumic, Boris Boussena, Mahmoud Buss, David M. Butovskaya, Marina Can, Seda Cantarero, Katarzyna Carrier, Antonin Cetinkaya, Hakan Chabin, Dominika Conroy-Beam, Daniel Contreras-Graduño, Jorge Correa Varella, Marco Antonio Cueto, Rosa María Czub, Marcin Dronova, Daria Dural, Seda Duyar, Izzet Ertugrul, Berna Espinosa, Agustín Esteves, Carla Sofia Guemaz, Farida Haľamová, Mária Herak, Iskra Hromatko, Ivana Hui, Chin-Ming Laile Jaafar, Jas Jiang, Feng Kafetsios, Konstantinos Kavcic, Tina Ottesen Kennair, Leif Edward Kervyn, Nicolas O. Ahmed Khilji, Imran Köbis, Nils C. Kostic, Aleksandra Láng, András Lennard, Georgina R. León, Ernesto Lindholm, Torun Lopez, Giulia Manesi, Zoi Martinez, Rocio McKerchar, Sarah L. Meskó, Norbert Misra, Girishwar Monaghan, Conal Mora, Emanuel C. Moya-Garofano, Alba Musil, Bojan Natividade, Jean Carlos Nizharadze, George Oberzaucher, Elisabeth Oleszkiewicz, Anna Onyishi, Ike Ernest Özener, Baris Pagani, Ariela Francesca Pakalniskiene, Vilmante Parise, Miriam Pazhoohi, Farid Pejičić, Marija Pisanski, Annette Pisanski, Katarzyna Plohl, Nejc Popa, Camelia Prokop, Pavol Rizwan, Muhammad Sainz, Mario Salkičević, Svjetlana Sargautyte, Ruta Sarmany-Schuller, Ivan Schmehl, Susanne Shahid, Anam Shaikh, Rizwana Sharad, Shivantika Sultan Siddiqui, Razi Simonetti, Franco Tadinac, Meri Ugalde González, Karina Uhryn, Olga Vauclair, Christin-Melanie Vega Araya, Luis Diego Ajeng Widarini, Dwi Yoo, Gyesook Fotowwat Zadeh, Zainab Zaťková, Marta Zupančič, Maja Croy, Ilona |
Keywords: | touch behaviors affective touch interpersonal behaviors cross-cultural psychology |
Publisher: | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin |
Citation: | Sorokowska, A., Saluja, S., Sorokowski, P., Frąckowiak, T., Karwowski, M., Aavik, T., Akello, G., Alm, C., Amjad, N., Anjum, A., Asao, K., Atama, C. S., Atamtürk Duyar, D., Ayebare, R., Batres, C., Bendixen, M., Bensafia, A., Bizumic, B., Boussena, M.,… y Croy, I. (2021). Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220988373 |
Abstract: | Abstract: Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual-level factors (sex, age, parasitic history, conservatism, religiosity, and preferred interpersonal distance) and cultural-level factors (regional temperature, parasite stress, regional conservatism, collectivism, and religiosity) in predicting these affective-touching behaviors. Our results indicate that affective touch was most prevalent in relationships with partners and children, and its diversity was relatively higher in warmer, less conservative, and religious countries, and among younger, female, and liberal people. This research allows for a broad and integrated view of the bases of cross-cultural variability in affective touch. |
URI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220988373 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12411/1179 |
Appears in Collections: | Artículos publicados en revistas internacionales |
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