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Associations Among Coping Style, Personality, Unsafe Sexual Behavior, Depression, Conflict over Sexual Orientation, and Gender Nonconformity
Published in Michael W. Ross, HIV/AIDS and Sexuality, 2012
James D. Weinrich, J. Hampton Atkinson, Thomas L. Patterson, J. Allen McCutchan, John C. Gonsiorek, Igor Grant
All questionnaires were mailed to a subject about a week before his baseline visit, with the exception of the MMPI-2 (which was added to the battery relatively recently and was sometimes obtained at a subsequent visit). During the Medical Core portion of the visit, the subject’s answers to the sex history questionnaire and Klein Sexual Orientation Grid were examined for completeness and consistency. Any problems or ambiguities were cleared up in a face-to-face interview before the end of the visit. The MMPI-2 was retrieved by the Psychiatry Core during its visit with the subject, and the Ways of Coping questionnaire was collected by the HNRC’s Life Events Project. The FGI questionnaire was scored using the HyperCard program, then transferred to the main databanks. MMPI-2 answer sheets were sent to a commercial service for scoring; the resultant t-scores were then entered into the database. Data were eventually transferred to the JMP statistical program from the SAS Institute.
Crafting Mixed Sexual Advertisements for Mainstream Media: Examining the Impact of Homosexual and Heterosexual Imagery Inclusion on Advertising Effectiveness
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2020
Participants’ gender was measured using one question, “What is your biological sex?” Participants’ sexual orientations were measured using the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (Klein, 2014; Klein, Sepekoff, & Wolf, 1985). This scale measured participants’ past, present, and ideal sexual orientation based on sexual fantasies, attractions, behaviors, lifestyles, and self-identification. Each question is paired with a 7-point scale, with 0 being other sex only, 3 being both sexes equally, and 6 being same sex only (Klein, 2014). Based on the sexual orientation measurements, 137 participants were identified as homosexuals. Because this study aims to evaluate the difference between homosexual and heterosexual individuals’ evaluation of mixed sexual advertisements, results from 12 participants who identified as bisexuals were excluded from data analysis.
Attraction to Men and Women Predicts Sexual Dimorphism Preferences
Published in International Journal of Sexual Health, 2020
Carlota Batres, Benedict C. Jones, David I. Perrett
It is notable that 62.60% of self-identified heterosexual women reported some level of sexual attraction to women. Our results are similar to those of a previous study that found that 52% of heterosexual women reported some degree of sexual attraction to women (Nichols, 2005). These results are important to acknowledge in order for health care providers to better understand sexual fluidity within the self-identified labels of clients (Oswalt, Evans, & Drott, 2016). Our results are also in line with sexuality research which proposes that sexual orientation operates on a continuum rather than as a categorical distribution. For example, research using the Kinsey Scale is primarily based on sexual behavior, experiences, and sexual fantasies (Kinsey et al., 1948, 1953) and research using the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid assesses seven dimensions including sexual attraction, sexual behavior, sexual fantasies, emotional preference, social preference, self-identification, and heterosexual/homosexual life-style (Klein, Sepekoff, & Wolf, 1985). The finding that even amongst participants who report an exclusively heterosexual label, some report attraction toward and/or partners of their non-preferred sex (Rupp, Taylor, Regev-Messalem, Fogarty, & England, 2014; Vrangalova & Savin-Williams, 2012) further supports the fluidity of sexual orientation.
Alternative Sexual Orientation in Humans: What Is Known and What Needs to Be Known Further
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2022
In spite of these sexualities, sexuality cannot be defined by fixed labels, and there is a spectrum of sexuality with homosexuality, heterosexuality, and bisexuality, falling in it. A variety of measures like the Kinsey scale, the Klein sexual orientation grid, genital measurements, etc., are reported in the literature for measuring sexual orientation of an individual, each having its strengths and weaknesses (Bailey et al., 2016). The widely discussed measure based on self-reporting is the Kinsey scale. Alfred Kinsey introduced the Kinsey scale in 1948 (Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction; Sell, 1997); it ranges from 0 to 6 (Table 1).