ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2023
Sociodemographic Patterns in Retrospective Sexual Orientation Identity and Attraction Change in the Sexual Orientation Fluidity in Youth Study.
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- A meta-analysis of sexual orientation inequities in substance use among youth.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Non-Binary People's Sexuality, Sexual Health, and Relationship Satisfaction: A Review of 12 Years of Quantitative Research (2012-2024).Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Will all youth answer sexual orientation and gender-related survey questions? An analysis of missingness in a large U.S. survey of adolescents and young adults.Psychological methods · 2026Article
- Milestones, revisited: Iterative and nonlinear identity development in Gen-Z.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
- Sexual orientation identity and attraction changes among youth: prospective versus retrospective measurement.Annals of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Stability and Change in Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Across Childhood and Adolescence.Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 2025Article
- One-in-ten adolescents and young adults report changes in their sexual orientation identity over 2-month follow-up: Results from a longitudinal cohort study.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2025Article
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purposeThis study examined sociodemographic patterns of retrospective fluidity in sexual orientation identity (i.e., any change from one identity to another) and attractions (i.e., any change in attractions to one or more gender(s)) in a large sample of US youth.
methodsParticipants were 4,087 youth (58% cisgender girls/women, 38% cisgender boys/men, 5% transgender or nonbinary individuals), ages 14-25 years, from across the United States, who were recruited from an online survey panel. Sexual and gender minorities and people of color were oversampled. Participants completed the Wave 1 survey of the longitudinal Sexual Orientation Fluidity in Youth study, which assessed sociodemographic characteristics and retrospective fluidity in sexual orientation identity and attractions.
resultsAcross the sample, 17% reported a retrospective change in identity and 33% reported a change in attractions. Participants who were most likely to report identity change were in the younger age group (14-17 years), were transgender or nonbinary, had a plurisexual identity (pansexual, queer), and reported attractions to more than one gender. Participants who were most likely to report attraction change were nonbinary, had a plurisexual identity (pansexual, queer, bisexual), and reported attractions to more than one gender. DISCUSSION: This study found retrospective changes in sexual orientation identity and attractions were common in this sample of youth, with the prevalence of these changes differing by sociodemographic characteristics. Results from this study inform future research on adolescent health and have implications for supporting and caring for this age group, for whom sexual fluidity is common.
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