Is Developmental Change in Gender-Typed Behavior Associated with Adult Sexual Orientation?

Autor/inn/en	Kahn, Nicole F.; Halpern, Carolyn T.
Titel	Is Developmental Change in Gender-Typed Behavior Associated with Adult Sexual Orientation?
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 55 (2019) 4, S.855-865 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kahn, Nicole F.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000662
Schlagwörter	Sexual Orientation; Adolescents; Young Adults; Longitudinal Studies; Correlation; Gender Differences; Behavior Patterns; Age Differences; Models; Biology; Scores; Developmental Stages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexuelle Orientierung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Korrelation; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Analogiemodell; Biologie
Abstract	The goal of this article was to examine gender-typed behavior longitudinally and to consider its relationship with sexual orientation in adulthood. Data were from 10,624 respondents who completed Wave 1 (adolescence), Wave 3 (emerging adulthood), and Wave 4 (early adulthood) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. First, we described the distributions of gender-typed behavior by adult sexual orientation at each of the three developmental stages. Next, we performed multilevel mixed regression models to assess longitudinal variation in gender-typed behavior from adolescence to adulthood within sexual orientation groups. Results showed that gender-typed behavior varied both within and between sexual orientation groups, as well as over time. For males, the differences in gender-typed behavior among the sexual orientation groups were relatively consistent at each stage, whereas differences in gender-typed behavior among sexual orientation groups varied more at each stage among females. Longitudinal models exhibited curvilinear patterns, such that gender-typed behavior strengthened from adolescence to early adulthood but peaked in emerging adulthood. To our knowledge, this is the first study to use population representative data to study gender-typed behavior both prospectively and at multiple time points from adolescence to adulthood, and to consider how such behavior is related to adult sexual orientation. This research contributes to a growing body of prospective literature on the link between gendered behavior and sexual orientation and provides further justification for more age- and cohort-specific measures of gender-typed behavior in future research. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01