Abstract
As part of a longitudinal follow-up of now-adult offspring from the original Hawaii Family Study of Cognition (HFSC), 59 spouse pairs of Caucasian ancestry (AEA), 37 spouse pairs of Japanese ancestry (AJA), and 50 spouse pairs of mixed ethnicity (Caucasian and Japanese ancestry HFSC subjects who married outside their own racial/ethnic group) completed a set of personality (Adjective Check List, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire), social attitude (Mach V, Comrey Social Attitudes Scale), and language use measures. A subset of these couples were also tested on the HFSC cognitive abilities test battery. AEA subjects who married outside of their racial/ethnic group were significantly smaller in physical size than those who married within group, while AJA subjects who married across groups had higher verbal abilities than those marrying within group. Use of “pidgin” English significantly differed for AEA and AJA subjects marrying within vs those married outside of their own racial/ethnic groups. Spouse correlations were essentially zero for cognitive abilities and low for personality measures, but were substantial for social attitudes and language use. These findings were discussed in terms of the importance of cultural factors in assortative mating.
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