TY - JOUR
T1 - Love and Dating Patterns for Same‐ and Both‐Gender Attracted Adolescents Across Europe
AU - Kolto, Andras
AU - Young, Honor
AU - Burke, Lorraine
AU - Moreau, Nathalie
AU - Cosma, Alina
AU - Magnusson, Josefine
AU - Windlin, Beat
AU - Reis, Marta
AU - Saewyc, Elizabeth M
AU - Godeau, Emmanuelle
AU - Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse
N1 - © 2018 The Authors. Journal of Research on Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Research on Adolescence.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Sexual orientation is a multidimensional phenomenon, which includes identity, behavior, and attraction. The attraction component, however, is less studied than the other two. In this article, we present the development of a two‐item measure to identify adolescents who prefer same‐ and both‐gender partners for love and dating. The questions were administered to nationally representative samples of 15‐year‐old adolescents in eight European countries and regions participating in the Health Behaviour in School‐aged Children (HBSC) cross‐national study. The distribution of attraction, as operationalized by preference for the gender of love and dating partners, was similar across countries. These questions offer an alternative or supplementary approach to identify same‐ and both‐gender attracted youth, without administering questions related to sexual identity.
AB - Sexual orientation is a multidimensional phenomenon, which includes identity, behavior, and attraction. The attraction component, however, is less studied than the other two. In this article, we present the development of a two‐item measure to identify adolescents who prefer same‐ and both‐gender partners for love and dating. The questions were administered to nationally representative samples of 15‐year‐old adolescents in eight European countries and regions participating in the Health Behaviour in School‐aged Children (HBSC) cross‐national study. The distribution of attraction, as operationalized by preference for the gender of love and dating partners, was similar across countries. These questions offer an alternative or supplementary approach to identify same‐ and both‐gender attracted youth, without administering questions related to sexual identity.
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jora.12394
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85045406201
U2 - 10.1111/jora.12394
DO - 10.1111/jora.12394
M3 - Article
SN - 1532-7795
VL - 28
SP - 772
EP - 778
JO - Journal of Research on Adolescence
JF - Journal of Research on Adolescence
IS - 4
ER -