outline mate choice theory
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The first article is about a study conducted on 16 women and 9 men with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), along with a control group of 15 unaffected women and 10 unaffected male relatives. The study was to test whether core gender identity, sexual orientation, and recalled childhood gender role behaviour was affected by CAH in any of the 4 groups. The hypothesis was that this condition would influence psycho-sexual development, based on evidence from previous studies conducted on other mammals that have shown that females with CAH display increased male-typical play behaviour.
In order to test gender identity, participants were given a questionnaire including questions that asked whether they enjoyed being a person of his or her own sex, wished to be a person of the other sex, or thought that they were psychologically a person of the other sex. A scale was used in order to obtain an overall score for each participant. The results showed that women with CAH showed reduced core gender identity as female compared to unaffected female relatives.
This study found that CAH had significant effects on sexual orientation. It involved a questionnaire asking about sexual behaviour, sexual fantasies and sexual desires of the participant. An overall score was given based on the answers. As expected, woman with CAH showed reduced heterosexual orientation in adulthood compared to unaffected female relatives.
The study also looked at recalled childhood gender role behaviour. To do this, participants completed the ‘pre-school activities inventory’ (PSAI) retrospectively to describe their own childhood behaviour. As expected, men scored significantly higher on the PSAI, and woman with CAH recalled significantly more male-typical behaviour in childhood than the unaffected women (higher PSAI scores).
Boys with CAH did not show any alteration in childhood play behaviour, and sexual orientation and core gender identity were unaffected.
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The first article is about a study conducted on 16 women and 9 men with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), along with a control group of 15 unaffected women and 10 unaffected male relatives. The study was to test whether core gender identity, sexual orientation, and recalled childhood gender role behaviour was affected by CAH in any of the 4 groups. The hypothesis was that this condition would influence psycho-sexual development, based on evidence from previous studies conducted on other mammals that have shown that females with CAH display increased male-typical play behaviour.
In order to test gender identity, participants were given a questionnaire including questions that asked whether they enjoyed being a person of his or her own sex, wished to be a person of the other sex, or thought that they were psychologically a person of the other sex. A scale was used in order to obtain an overall score for each participant. The results showed that women with CAH showed reduced core gender identity as female compared to unaffected female relatives.
This study found that CAH had significant effects on sexual orientation. It involved a questionnaire asking about sexual behaviour, sexual fantasies and sexual desires of the participant. An overall score was given based on the answers. As expected, woman with CAH showed reduced heterosexual orientation in adulthood compared to unaffected female relatives.
The study also looked at recalled childhood gender role behaviour. To do this, participants completed the ‘pre-school activities inventory’ (PSAI) retrospectively to describe their own childhood behaviour. As expected, men scored significantly higher on the PSAI, and woman with CAH recalled significantly more male-typical behaviour in childhood than the unaffected women (higher PSAI scores).
Boys with CAH did not show any alteration in childhood play behaviour, and sexual orientation and core gender identity were unaffected.
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