Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F21%3A73606793" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/21:73606793 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167220988373" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167220988373</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167220988373" target="_blank" >10.1177/0146167220988373</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Original language description
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.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN
ISSN
0146-1672
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
47
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
1705-1721
UT code for WoS article
000636494800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85101262783