Same-sex attraction in a birth cohort: prevalence and persistence in early adulthood
Same-sex attraction in a birth cohort: prevalence and persistence in early adulthood
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DOI：
10.1016/s0277-9536(02)00161-2
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发表时间：
2003-04-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Herbison, P
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作者：
Dickson, N;Paul, C;Herbison, P
有一个持续的辩论社会与生物因素在同性吸引力的表达的重要性。在一个相对接受同性恋的国家长大的年轻人中，对同性恋的流行率、持续性和随时间的变化进行调查可能会阐明这一争论。因此，我们对新西兰一座城市1972/3年出生的约1000人进行了队列分析，分析了21岁和26岁时自我报告的同性吸引力。参与者还被问及同性行为和对同性关系的态度。到26岁时，10.7%的男性和24.5%的女性报告说在某个时候被自己的性别所吸引。这一比例下降到5.6%的男性和16.4%的女性，他们报告说目前有一些同性吸引力。1.6%的男性和2.1%的女性报告说，目前的吸引力主要是自己的性别或平等的两性（主要吸引力）。偶尔的同性吸引，但不是主要的吸引，在受教育程度最高的人群中更为常见。在21岁至26岁之间，远离异性恋吸引力的男性（占所有男性的1.9%）略多于接近异性恋吸引力的男性（1.0%），而对于女性来说，远离异性恋吸引力的男性（9.5%）多于接近异性恋吸引力的男性（1.3%）。这些研究结果表明，同性吸引力在成年早期并不是排他性的，而且是不稳定的，尤其是在女性中。在新西兰，与男性以及英国和美国的女性相比，报告有同性吸引力的女性比例很高。这些观察结果，沿着教育程度的变化，与社会环境在承认同性吸引力方面的重要作用是一致的。具有主要同性吸引力的较小群体，随着时间的推移变化较小，并且没有因教育而不同，这与性吸引力的基本生物学维度一致。总的来说，这些发现反对任何单一的解释同性恋吸引力。(C)2002爱思唯尔科技有限公司。保留所有权利。
There is a continuing debate about the importance of social versus biological factors in the expression of same-sex attraction. Investigation of prevalence, continuities, and changes over time among young adults growing up in a country with a relatively accepting climate to homosexuality is likely to illuminate this debate. Analyses were therefore undertaken of self-reported same-sex attraction at age 21 and 26, in a cohort of about 1000 people born in 1972/3 in one New Zealand city. Participants were also asked about same-sex behaviour and attitudes to same-sex relationships. By age 26, 10.7% of men and 24.5% of women reported being attracted to their own sex at some time. This dropped to 5.6% of men and 16.4% of women who reported some current same-sex attraction. Current attraction predominantly to their own sex or equally to both sexes (major attraction) was reported by 1.6% of men and 2.1% of women. Occasional same-sex attraction, but not major attraction, was more common among the most educated. Between age 21 and 26, slightly more men moved away from an exclusive heterosexual attraction (1.9% of all men) than moved towards it (1.0%), while for women, many more moved away (9.5%) than towards (1.3%) exclusive heterosexual attraction. These findings show that much same-sex attraction is not exclusive and is unstable in early adulthood, especially among women. The proportion of women reporting some same-sex attraction in New Zealand is high compared both to men, and to women in the UK and US. These observations, along with the variation with education, are consistent with a large role for the social environment in the acknowledgement of same-sex attraction. The smaller group with major same-sex attraction, which changed less over time, and did not differ by education, is consistent with a basic biological dimension to sexual attraction. Overall these findings argue against any single explanation for homosexual attraction. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.