Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-210 Gdansk, Poland.
Department of Psychology, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-210 Gdansk, Poland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug 26;19(17):10643. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191710643.
Sexual and gender identity is a fundamental part of one's overall identity and plays an important role in human functioning. Questioning one's sexuality associated with low level of self-concept clarity, certainty, consistency and stability with regard to the individual's beliefs about oneself, can affect their sense of coherence and value system. The aim of the study was to compare heterosexual and cisgender people with non-heteronormative and non-cisgender people regarding their attitudes and the way they perceive significant personal values. It was assumed that non-heterosexual and non-cisgender individuals would have lower self-concept clarity and lower sense of coherence, and that among them such values as openness to change and transcending Self would be dominant. The study was conducted on a group of 337 individuals aged 18 to 30. The participants filled out four self-report online questionnaires. Self-concept clarity was found to be connected with a greater tendency to question one's sexual and gender identity. The results also indicate differences between heterosexual/cisgender participants and non-heterosexual/non-cisgender participants in terms of the degree of self-concept clarity and sense of coherence. Non-heteronormative and cisgender individuals show a greater tendency to question their identity and have lower self-concept clarity, which may lower their sense of coherence.
性取向和性别认同是一个人整体身份的重要组成部分，对人的功能发挥起着重要作用。对自身性取向的质疑与个体对自我的信念的自我概念清晰度、确定性、一致性和稳定性水平较低有关，可能会影响他们的整体感和价值观体系。本研究的目的是比较异性恋和顺性别者与非异性恋和非顺性别者在态度和对重要个人价值观的感知方面的差异。研究假设非异性恋和非顺性别者的自我概念清晰度和整体感较低，而他们更倾向于开放和超越自我等价值观。该研究在年龄在 18 至 30 岁的 337 名个体中进行。参与者填写了四个在线自我报告问卷。研究发现，自我概念清晰度与更倾向于质疑自己的性取向和性别认同有关。研究结果还表明，在自我概念清晰度和整体感方面，异性恋/顺性别参与者和非异性恋/非顺性别参与者存在差异。非异性恋和非顺性别者更倾向于质疑自己的身份，自我概念清晰度较低，这可能会降低他们的整体感。
