This preliminary study examined the nature of worry content of lesbians, gay men, and bisexual individuals and the relationship between worry related to sexual orientation and mental health. A community sample of 54 individuals identifying as sexual minorities was recruited from two cities in the Great Plains to complete a packet of questionnaires, including a modified Worry Domains Questionnai...

Prison sex research has generally followed an essentialist theoretical approach. Only Alarid used a social constructionist approach to understand sexuality behind bars. Using data collected from 142 male inmates in a Southern maximum-security correctional facility, the purpose of the present study was to examine whether engaging in sexual behavior affects a change in the sexual orientation of m...

Although studies have shown that sexual orientation can be judged from faces, this research has not considered how age-related differences in perceivers or targets affect such judgments. In the current work, we evaluated whether accuracy differed among young adults (YA) and older adults (OA) for young and old men's faces by recruiting a sample of YA and OA in the lab, a community sample of sexu...

S EXUAL ORIENTATION REFERS TO ADULT STABLE SEXUAL ATTRACTIONS, DESIRES, fantasies, and expressions toward other adult men and women. As defined, the orientation of a person cannot be determined until emerging adulthood. Early pubertal and adolescent behavior is best viewed as exploratory rather than as indicative of any particular orientation. Psychologists distinguish sexual orientation from a...

BACKGROUND Lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations are not part of cancer surveillance, resulting in scarce information about the cancer survivorship of these populations. To address this information gap, the authors examined the prevalence of cancer survivorship by sexual orientation and cancer survivors' self-reported health by sexual orientation. METHODS The authors explored these issues by...

We found that judgments of a perceptually ambiguous social category, sexual orientation, varied as a function of a perceptually obvious social category, race. Sexual orientation judgments tend to exploit a heuristic of gender inversion that often promotes accuracy. We predicted that an orthogonal social category that is itself gendered, race, would impact both sexual orientation categorizations...

PURPOSE To examine the performance of various items measuring sexual orientation within 8 school-based adolescent health surveys in the United States and Canada from 1986 through 1999. METHODS Analyses examined nonresponse and unsure responses to sexual orientation items compared with other survey items, demographic differences in responses, tests for response set bias, and congruence of resp...

Title of Dissertation: “BORN THAT WAY” AND OTHER NOTIONS: MEASURING SEXUAL MINORITY INDIVIDUALS’ BELIEFS ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION Julie Renée Arseneau, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Ruth E. Fassinger, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services The focus of the present study was the creation and initial validation of a measure of popular beliefs about sexual orientation ...

Both sexual orientation and sex-typical childhood behaviors, such as toy, playmate and activity preferences, show substantial sex differences, as well as substantial variability within each sex. In other species, behaviors that show sex differences are typically influenced by exposure to gonadal steroids, particularly testosterone and its metabolites, during early development (prenatally or neo...