RETROSPECTIVELY MEASURED INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES IN CHILDHOOD SEX-TYPED BEHAVIOR AMONG GAY MEN - CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SELF AND MATERNAL REPORTS
RETROSPECTIVELY MEASURED INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES IN CHILDHOOD SEX-TYPED BEHAVIOR AMONG GAY MEN - CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SELF AND MATERNAL REPORTS
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01542183
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发表时间:
1995-12-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
WOLFE, M
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作者:
BAILEY, JM;NOTHNAGEL, J;WOLFE, M
Male sexual orientation is strongly associated with childhood sec-typed behavior, but there are also marked within-orientation differences. Gay men show increased variance compared to heterosexual men on retrospective measures of childhood sex-typed behavior. Individual differences among gay men for their degree of sex-typed behavior may have important implications However, there has been little attention given to the reliability or validity of retrospective measures of such differences that are most common. Gay men and their mothers completed questionnaires assessing the men's sex-typicality during childhood. Results of structural modeling analyses found that mothers' and sons' reports were significantly associated, both regarding the general level of sex-typed behavior and the specific behaviors, supporting the validity of retrospectively measured individual differences for those characteristics.