Phillips G, Over R
Department of Psychology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia.
Arch Sex Behav. 1995 Feb;24(1):1-20. doi: 10.1007/BF01541985.
Heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian women recalled the extent to which they had engaged in gender conforming (female-stereotypic) behaviors and gender nonconforming (male-stereotypic) behaviors in childhood. Heterosexual women were more likely to recall having had female-stereotypic experiences as children, whereas lesbian women often recalled a childhood characterized by male-stereotypic experiences. Multiple discriminant function allowed the heterosexual women in the sample to be distinguished from the lesbian women with 80% accuracy in classification of individual cases on the basis of four recollected attributes (imagined self as a male character, wished to become a mother, preference for boys' games, and considered a tomboy as a child). However, some heterosexual women reported much the same childhood behaviors as the majority of lesbian women, and some lesbian women reported much the same childhood behaviors as the majority of heterosexual women. Such diversity raises questions about the nature of the relationship between experiences in childhood and adult sexual orientation.
异性恋、双性恋和女同性恋女性回忆了她们在童年时期参与符合性别规范（女性刻板印象）行为和不符合性别规范（男性刻板印象）行为的程度。异性恋女性更有可能回忆起童年时有女性刻板印象的经历，而女同性恋女性常常回忆起以男性刻板印象经历为特征的童年。多元判别函数能够根据四种回忆属性（想象自己是男性角色、希望成为母亲、偏好男孩的游戏、小时候被认为是假小子），以80%的个体案例分类准确率将样本中的异性恋女性与女同性恋女性区分开来。然而，一些异性恋女性报告的童年行为与大多数女同性恋女性非常相似，一些女同性恋女性报告的童年行为与大多数异性恋女性非常相似。这种多样性引发了关于童年经历与成人性取向之间关系本质的问题。
