Does culture moderate the relationship between sexual orientation and gender-related personality traits? |
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Lippa,-Richard-A; Tan,-Francisco-D
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California State U, Fullerton, CA, US
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2/2001
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Journal
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Cross-Cultural-Research:-The-Journal-of-Comparative-Social-Science
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Vol 35(1): 65-87
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Asian American, Research, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Hispanics
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Do cultural factors moderate the relationship between sexual orientation and gender-related personality traits? To answer this question, the authors assessed gender-related traits in 90 gay men, 82 lesbians, 71 heterosexual men, and 95 heterosexual women from 3 cultural groups: Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and White Americans. Among the gender-related traits measured were gender diagnosticity (GD), which assesses male- vs female-typicality of occupational and hobby preferences; self-ascribed masculinity and femininity; masculine instrumentality; and feminine expressiveness. The authors found strong homosexual-heterosexual differences on GD measures, moderate to strong differences in self-ascribed masculinity and femininity, and weak and inconsistent differences on instrumentality and expressiveness. Participants from traditional, gender-polarized cultures (Asians and Hispanics) tended to show larger heterosexual-homosexual differences in gender-related traits than participants from a nontraditional and gender-nonpolarized culture (American Whites). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)
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