CHARACTERISTICS OF PREFERRED PARTNERS - VARIATIONS BETWEEN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN

Researchers examined the interaction of gender and education as influe nces on mate selection characteristics for 55 male and 111 female Afri can American college students at a historically Black college/universi ty. Students, age 17 to 38, were asked to rate 22 mate selection chara cteristics according to their importance in selecting a partner A fact or analysis yielded three factor scores (social stratification, person ality, and physical variables) that were significant only for gender a cross the social and physical variables.