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Assortative Mating for Personality Traits, Educational Level, Religious Affiliation, Height, Weight, and Body Mass Index in Parents of a Korean Twin Sample

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Yoon-Mi Hur
Yoon-Mi Hur*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Education, Hansung University, Seoul, Korea. maryhur@hananet.net
*
*Address for correspondence: Yoon-Mi Hur, Graduate School of Education, Hansung University, 389 Samsun-dong 2-ga, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 136-792, Korea.

Abstract

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The degree of assortative mating for psychological and physical traits in Asian societies is relatively unknown. The present study examined assortative mating for educational level, personality traits, religious affiliation, height, weight, and body mass index in a Korean sample. Age-adjusted spouse correlations were high for educational level (r = .63) and religious affiliation (r = .67), modest for most personality traits (rs = −.01 to .26), and trivial for height (r = .04), weight (r = .05), and body mass index (r = .11). These results were remarkably similar to those found from the western samples. Implications of the present findings in behavior genetic studies and human mating patterns were briefly discussed.

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Twin Research and Human Genetics , Volume 6 , Issue 6 , 01 December 2003 , pp. 467 - 470
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003