a Department of Health Sciences, Brock University.
b Department of Psychology, Brock University.
J Sex Res. 2018 Oct;55(8):951-961. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2017.1287844. Epub 2017 Feb 23.
Previous research has examined self-identified sexual orientation in relation to self-reports on the Big Five personality factors. Here we extend this research by including asexuality as a fourth sexual orientation and by assessing the HEXACO personality factors, using self-report data from a large anonymous online sample (N ≈ 100,000). A large overlap was observed among all sexual orientation groups on all six HEXACO dimensions, but notable group differences also emerged. All nonheterosexual groups, particularly bisexual people, averaged higher in openness to experience than did heterosexuals. Heterosexual men averaged much lower in emotionality than heterosexual women, but only a small difference was observed between gay men and lesbians on this dimension. Asexual men and women averaged lower in extraversion and in some facets of emotionality (specifically, dependence and sentimentality) than did the other sexual orientation groups of the same sex. Results are discussed in relation to the different social realities that each sexual orientation group often experiences, along with the (gender-related) developmental influences hypothesized to underlie in part the origins of sexual orientation.
先前的研究已经考察了自我认同的性取向与大五人格因素的自我报告之间的关系。在这里，我们通过将无性取向作为第四种性取向纳入研究，并使用来自大型匿名在线样本（N≈100000）的自我报告数据来评估 HEXACO 人格因素，从而扩展了这项研究。在所有六个 HEXACO 维度上，所有性取向群体之间都存在很大的重叠，但也出现了明显的群体差异。所有非异性恋群体，特别是双性恋者，在开放性体验方面的得分均高于异性恋者。异性恋男性在情感方面的得分明显低于异性恋女性，但在这一维度上，男同性恋者和女同性恋者之间只观察到很小的差异。无性恋男性和女性在外向性和情感的某些方面（特别是依赖性和多愁善感）的得分均低于其他同性性取向群体。研究结果结合每个性取向群体通常经历的不同社会现实以及（与性别相关的）发展影响进行了讨论，这些影响被假设在部分性取向的起源中起作用。
