Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA.
Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
J Homosex. 2023 Aug 24;70(10):2253-2275. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2059967. Epub 2022 Apr 22.
In the absence of adequate measurement efforts, expansive gender and sexual identities will remain underexplored in quantitative social science and health research. We use primary survey data (N = 309) to identify factors associated with U.S.based social and health science faculty's attitudes toward inclusive gender and sexuality measures in participant-based research. Results suggest that political science faculty rated expansive gender and sexuality measures as less important to their own research, relative to psychology, sociology, and health sciences faculty. In addition, cisgender/heterosexual women and LGBTQ+ identifying faculty rate and apply these measures more positively compared to faculy who identify as cisgender/heterosexual men. Finally, faculty engaging in predominantly quantitative research, or in teaching-focused positions, had lower ratings of the importance of gender expansive measurement. Results suggest that while individual characteristics shape faculty's attitudes toward and use of inclusive gender and sexuality measures, disciplinary and academic contexts also matter.
在缺乏充分衡量手段的情况下，广泛的性别认同和性取向在定量社会科学和健康研究中仍未得到充分探索。我们使用原始调查数据（N=309）来确定与美国社会和健康科学教师对基于参与者的研究中包容性性别和性取向衡量标准的态度相关的因素。结果表明，与心理学、社会学和健康科学教师相比，政治学教师认为广泛的性别和性取向衡量标准对自己的研究不太重要。此外，跨性别/异性恋女性和 LGBTQ+ 认同教师比认同跨性别/异性恋男性的教师对这些衡量标准的评价和应用更为积极。最后，主要从事定量研究或教学型职位的教师对性别广泛衡量的重要性评价较低。结果表明，虽然个人特征塑造了教师对包容性性别和性取向衡量标准的态度和使用，但学科和学术背景也很重要。
