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Mind Map by oliviaclifton, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by oliviaclifton
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Buss 1989; Procedures
- The research method was a cross-cultural
questionnaire (x2)
- Buss' sample consisted of 10,047 pps from 33
countries (37 countries)
- Sample size varied between 55 in Iran to nearly
1500 in USA. Sampling methods varied e.g
volunteer in Germany & opportunist in New
Zealand. Zulu's who could not read had the
questions read out.
- The mean sample size per country was 272 and the mean age of all the pps was 23.
- The research involved;
- Sending out 2 questionnaires, asking pps about their
preferences in a partner based on 5 things: financial
status, looks, age, chastity and ambition.
- The questionnaire involved subsections that
included biographical data (checking age, gender,
at what age they would like to marry etc.) and a
rating task of 18 characteristics.
- 4 of the critical characteristics (exception = age) were buried within the list
to be rated. The irrelevant characteristics included "dependable character"
and "sociability." Each was rated on a 4 point scale; from 3 (indispensable)
to 0 (irrelevant or unimportant.)
- The second questionnaire asked pps to rank order 13, including
critical characteristics - financial prospects and looks - this tested
reliability across methods.
- Buss got bilingual speaker to translate the questionnaires into all the necessary
languages and then to translate the answers back again. THE NATIVE
RESEARCHERS DID NOT KNOW THE HYPOTHESIS (DOUBLE BLIND)
- Addressing Ethical Issues
- Respected cultural differences by changing the Nigerian wording to allow
for more than one wife.
- Respected cultural differences by changing the Nigerian wording to allow
for more than one wife.
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