Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Research on the Mate Selection Preferences of the Contemporary Chinese Youth.
This study analyzed how the objective conditions of potential mates and individual conditions affected the mate selection satisfaction of Chinese youth, with a focus on the moderating role of gender and the mediating effect of education. Using data from the 2021 China General Social Survey (N = 1767...
| Publicado en: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 54; no. 7; pp. 2505 - 2516 |
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