Savin-Williams Ritch C, Ream Geoffrey L
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2006 Jun;35(3):279-86. doi: 10.1007/s10508-006-9032-8. Epub 2006 Jun 27.
Using 6-year longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) and multiple measures of puberty as it occurs and of sexual orientation (romantic attraction, sexual identity), the present study attempted to replicate previous research which reported that homosexuals and heterosexuals differed in their age of pubertal onset. The study hypotheses were not confirmed for either males or females: on most pubertal measures, same-sex oriented groupings did not differ from heterosexuals. The only significant findings regarding homosexual males indicated that they were more likely to report having a later rather than an earlier onset of puberty, and the significant findings regarding homosexual females were contradictory--they tended to have an earlier onset of puberty. These findings are attributed to methodological improvements in the present study that reduced retrospective bias, used multiple indicators of sexual orientation and puberty timing, and assessed less eroticized measures of puberty.
本研究利用青少年健康全国纵向调查（“增加健康”项目）的6年纵向数据以及青春期发生时的多种测量指标和性取向（浪漫吸引力、性身份）测量指标，试图重复之前的研究，该研究报告称同性恋者和异性恋者在青春期开始的年龄上存在差异。该研究的假设在男性和女性中均未得到证实：在大多数青春期测量指标上，性取向相同的分组与异性恋者没有差异。关于男同性恋者的唯一显著发现表明，他们更有可能报告青春期开始较晚而非较早，而关于女同性恋者的显著发现则相互矛盾——她们往往青春期开始较早。这些发现归因于本研究在方法上的改进，这些改进减少了回顾性偏差，使用了性取向和青春期时间的多个指标，并评估了较少涉及色情的青春期测量指标。
