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dc.contributor.authorGreaves, Lara M
dc.contributor.authorBarlow, Fiona Kate
dc.contributor.authorLee, Carol HJ
dc.contributor.authorMatika, Correna M
dc.contributor.authorWang, Weiyu
dc.contributor.authorLindsay, Cinnamon-Jo
dc.contributor.authorCase, Claudia JB
dc.contributor.authorSengupta, Nikhil K
dc.contributor.authorHuang, Yanshu
dc.contributor.authorCowie, Lucy J
dc.contributor.authorStronge, Samantha
dc.contributor.authorStorey, Mary
dc.contributor.authorDe Souza, Lucy
dc.contributor.authorManuela, Sam
dc.contributor.authorHammond, Matthew D
dc.contributor.authorMilojev, Petar
dc.contributor.authorTownrow, Carly S
dc.contributor.authorMuriwai, Emerald
dc.contributor.authorSatherley, Nicole
dc.contributor.authorFraser, Gloria
dc.contributor.authorWest-Newman, Tim
dc.contributor.authorHoukamau, Carla
dc.contributor.authorBulbulia, Joseph
dc.contributor.authorOsborne, Danny
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Marc S
dc.contributor.authorSibley, Chris G
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-11T00:58:49Z
dc.date.available2018-05-11T00:58:49Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0004-0002
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10508-016-0857-5
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/123950
dc.description.abstractIn this study, we asked participants to “describe their sexual orientation” in an open-ended measure of self-generated sexual orientation. The question was included as part of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (N = 18,261) 2013/2014 wave, a national probability survey conducted shortly after the first legal same-sex marriages in New Zealand. We present a two-level classification scheme to address questions about the prevalence of, and demographic differences between, sexual orientations. At the most detailed level of the coding scheme, 49 unique categories were generated by participant responses. Of those who responded with the following, significantly more were women: bisexual (2.1 % of women, compared to 1.5 % of men), bicurious (0.7 % of women, 0.4 % of men), and asexual (0.4 % of women and less than 0.1 % of men). However, significantly fewer women than men reported being lesbian or gay (1.8 % of women, compared to 3.5 % of men). Those openly identifying as bicurious, bisexual, or lesbian/gay were significantly younger than those with a heterosexual orientation. This study shows diversity in the terms used in self-generated sexual orientations, and provides up-to-date gender, age, and prevalence estimates for the New Zealand population. Finally, results reveal that a substantial minority of participants may not have understood the question about sexual orientation.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto12
dc.relation.ispartofjournalArchives of Sexual Behavior
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth services and systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther human society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther psychology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4203
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4499
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode52
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode529999
dc.titleThe Diversity and Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Self-Labels in a New Zealand National Sample
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBarlow, Fiona K.


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