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Attachment Style, Sexual Orientation, and Biological Sex in their Relationships With Gender Role.
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- Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, parental stress, and attachment styles.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Variations in gender identity and sexual orientation of university students.Sexual medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionMasculinity and femininity constitute the gender role construct into the general concept of sexual identity.
aimTo investigate the relationships of attachment style, sexual orientation and biological sex with the gender role.
methodsA convenience sample of 344 subjects (females = 207; males = 137) was recruited.
main outcome measuresThe Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ), the Kinsey Scale, and the Bem Sex Role Inventory assessed, respectively, attachment styles, sexual orientation, and masculinity/femininity was administered.
resultsRegression analysis revealed that the confidence scale of the ASQ (secure attachment) and relationship as secondary scale of ASQ (insecure/dismissing attachment) have a predictive role toward a higher score of masculinity (β = 0.201; P = .000 and β = 0.208; P = .000, respectively), whereas the need of approval scale of the ASQ (insecure/fearful-preoccupied attachment) shows a reverse association on it (β = -0.228; P = .001). Moreover, to be a male is predictive for masculinity (β = 0.196; P = .000). Also, femininity is predicted by the confidence (β = 0.173; P = .002) and the need of approval (β = 0.151; P = .03) scales of ASQ. Instead, the relationship as secondary scale of ASQ is negatively related to femininity (β = -0.198; P = .0001). No association between non-heterosexual orientation and gender role was found. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: A better knowledge of links between relational patterns and gender roles for assessment and anamnesis phases in sexual medicine. STRENGTHS & LIMITATIONS: This is the first study considering sexual orientation and biological sex in the relationship between attachment styles and gender role. The main limitation is the use of self-reported psychometric tests.
conclusionOur data indicate that a secure attachment is related to both masculinity and femininity. On the contrary, different and reverse aspects of insecure attachment style characterize masculinity and femininity. Masculinity is mostly linked to insecure/dismissing attachment, whereas femininity is linked to insecure/fearful-preoccupied attachment. Moreover, although being male is a further element in support of masculinity, sexual orientation is not associated with gender role. Ciocca G, Zauri S, Limoncin E, et al. Attachment Style, Sexual Orientation, and Biological Sex in their Relationships with Gender Role. Sex Med. 2019;8:76-83.
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