Kanazawa, Satoshi 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3786-8797
(2020)
Father absence, sociosexual orientation, and same-sex sexuality in women and men.
International Journal of Psychology, 55 (2).
234 - 244.
ISSN 0020-7594
Abstract
A recent evolutionary theory of female sexual fluidity suggests that women may not have sexual orientations in the same sense that men do, and that women's apparent sexual orientation may instead be a byproduct of their sociosexual orientation. One developmental factor that has consistently been shown to influence sociosexual orientation is father absence in childhood. Consistent with the prediction of the theory, the analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data show that father absence significantly increases women's, but not men's, same-sex sexuality in adulthood, whether it is measured by self identity, sexual behaviour, or romantic attraction. Further consistent with the theory, the association between father absence and same-sex sexuality in women is entirely mediated by their sociosexual orientation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1464066x |
| Additional Information: | © 2019 International Union of Psychological Science |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Mar 2019 15:09 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2024 07:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/100192 |
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