Materials used for this study consisted of a series of questionnaires: Series 1 was distributed to 300 individuals and included the question identifying sexual preference; Series 2 was designed to gauge the degree to which study participants considered themselves able to disclose potentially embarrassing information in an anonymous study; Series 3 consisted of specific questions designed to reveal any perceptions or disclosures on the part of participants consistent with the hypothesis.
The procedure employed by this study consisted of distributing Series 1 questionnaires to college students on two campuses with an effort made to include homosexual and bisexual individuals by soliciting responses from members of acknowledged gay associations as well as from the general student population. The experimenters then used Series 2 questions to narrow the original field of 300 participants to a smaller field of 100 to identify those individuals who expressed confidence in their willingness to discuss the issue of homosexuality openly in their answers to Series 3 questions. Series 3 questions are discussed in further detail in the Discussion section below.
Discussion:
The results of the study consisted of the responses to the following questions in the Series 3 Questionnaire: (1) Have you ever experienced doubt that you are completely heterosexual/homosexual/bisexual? (2) if yes, please describe any changes in your self-perception of sexual orientation between your first sexual thoughts and your present sexual orientation; (3) Please describe any doubts, confusions, or concerns you have ever experienced about your sexual orientation.
The results disclosed that 85% of homosexual and bisexual individuals had experienced some confusion of sexual orientation before establishing...
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