Age Homophily on a Czech Online Dating Site

IF 0.4 4区社会学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY

Sociologicky Casopis-Czech Sociological Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.13060/CSR.2020.014

Renata Topinkova, Markéta Šetinová

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Abstract

This article examines age homophily on a Czech online dating site using real user data. With a sample of 10 563 unique users and the aid of negative binomial regression, we test two hypotheses based on previous studies of online dating - namely, that men and women show different partner preferences with respect to age and that women in particular favour age homophily in their contacts. The model results support these hypotheses. Men are observed to prefer younger women, while women prefer men who are the same age or older than they are. Given that there are significantly fewer women on the dating site, they are the ones who choose, and the pairing result depends on whether they respond to a contact or not. The youngest women are contacted by men of all ages. Although men contact much younger women, they have a better chance of success with older women. Our conclusions are thus consistent with international research on homophily in the online environment and to some extent the results correspond to patterns of age homogamy in the Czech Republic. Unlike international research, however, the attractiveness of Czech men is found to decrease as they age.

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捷克在线约会网站的年龄同质性

本文使用真实用户数据研究捷克在线约会网站上的年龄同质性。在10563个独立用户的样本和负二项回归的帮助下，我们测试了基于先前在线约会研究的两个假设——即，男性和女性在年龄方面表现出不同的伴侣偏好，女性尤其喜欢在他们的联系人中年龄相仿。模型结果支持这些假设。据观察，男性更喜欢年轻的女性，而女性更喜欢与自己同龄或年长的男性。考虑到约会网站上的女性人数明显较少，她们是选择的人，配对结果取决于她们是否回应联系人。各个年龄段的男人都会联系最年轻的女人。尽管男性接触的是年轻得多的女性，但他们更有可能与年长的女性成功交往。因此，我们的结论与国际上关于网络环境中同性性的研究是一致的，在某种程度上，结果与捷克共和国的年龄同性性模式相对应。然而，与国际研究不同的是，捷克男性的吸引力随着年龄的增长而下降。

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