"age preference" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a person's preferred age range for a potential partner or significant other. Example: "In the survey, participants were asked about their age preference for romantic relationships. The majority of respondents expressed a preference for partners within 5 years of their own age."
Our results suggest that shifts in age preference have a larger impact on partnership patterns than shifts in education preference.
From there, Kelley says, "it's a combination of knowledge about the person who needs to be matched, and intuition", along with factors such as geography, age preference, whether a person wants to see a male or female therapist.
For first marriage, the shift in age preference scenario (escape route #3) works well both for low- and middle-educated women, while highly-educated women seem to follow the path of strengthened educational homogamy (escape route #1).
For low-educated cohabiting women, shift in age preference (escape route #3) is the scenario that closest resembles in a qualitative way the patterns observed in the GGS dataset.
Both Whipple's index and total modified Whipple's index showed consistency in detecting age preference.
With the exception of the 2007 census, the findings show the significant pattern of age preference of 0, 5 and 8 in 1976 , 1986and 1997, respectively.
These findings are discussed in terms of age preferences and good-genes models.
You can start swiping yay or nay to what appears to be a never-ending supply of possible matches generated by your GPS position and age preferences.
And those who spend too long overseas find they are shut out by rigid age preferences for graduates no older than their mid-20s.
The findings, which analysed the age preferences of 22,000 men and women using online dating sites across 14 countries, were published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.
These data were collected as part of a study that also explored adolescent self concept and age preferences about when to inform about genetic risk.
