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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Heterosexual women"”.
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Depression and self -silencing in lesbian and heterosexual women
… area in the literature of the psychology of women and in depression research. A few investigators have hypothesized about the factors that place lesbians at risk for depression, and have explored those hypotheses experimentally. However, there is a large gap in the understanding of lesbians …
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How would you react? : exploring heterosexual women's reactions to confrontations of their own homonegative behaviour
… homonegative attitudes and/or behaviours among heterosexual women. Consequently, the purpose of the current study was to explore three unique aspects of such confrontations among a sample of heterosexual women from the University of Saskatchewan. These three aspects were: 1) to what extent do …
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Gender, Sexuality, and Status Foundations of Inequality: Effects of Earnings, Financial Satisfaction, and Perceived Financial Status
… that preference white men while devaluing women and non-whites. Sexuality is an additional social status that has been shown to interact with gender through heterosexism to create lower earnings for gay men, relative to heterosexual men, but higher earnings for lesbians, relative to …
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Women's friendships: Influence of feminism and sexual orientation on Caucasian women's friendship patterns and emotional well-being
… the effects of ""woman-identification"" on women's friendships and subjective well-being by investigating the friendship patterns of nonfeminist heterosexual women, feminist heterosexual women, and feminist lesbians and bisexual women. Three major questions were addressed. First, do feminist …
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Heterosexual and lesbian women's attributions of domestic violence and myth endorsement behaviors
… has been conducted about domestic violence using heterosexual women samples. This study investigated how heterosexual and lesbian women make attributions about domestic violence, as well as their myth endorsement behaviors. It also looked at the effect of participants’ egalitarianism on their …
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Stereotypes of older adult lesbians and gay men
… orientation-unspecified adult and older adult women and men. There has also been research on stereotypes of age-unspecified lesbians and gay men. No research to date, however, has formally focused on stereotypes of older adult lesbians and gay men. This study examined stereotypes of older adult …
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Sexual script flexibility, sexual satisfaction, and sexual communication: comparison between bisexual and heterosexual identifying cisgender women
… it has rarely been applied to cisgender bisexual women. Further, much of the existing research on sexual health is rooted in heteronormative and mononormative schemas that fail to recognize the diverse experiences of individuals in LGBTQ+ communities. The lack of attention to cisgender bisexual …
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ANALYZING CLINICAL PRESENTATION, SERVICE UTILIZATION, AND CLINICAL OUTCOME OF FEMALE SEXUAL MINORITY COLLEGE STUDENTS
… clinically-relevant trends for sexual minority women have found evidence of psychological distress and greater utilization of mental health services compared to heterosexually-identified women. However, the results of many research studies with this population have methodological limitations …
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Experiences of same-sex oriented women in relation to psychological wellbeing
… explores issues related to same-sex oriented women's psychological wellbeing, including their experiences of same-sex partner bereavement in later life and their experiences of informal social support. The literature review explored how non-heterosexual women experience informal social …
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Influences of androgenisation and personality on female sexual orientation, behaviour, and arousal
… with most men being aroused to one sex, and most women being aroused to both sexes. Within women, I also investigated whether prenatal hormonal influences explain why homosexual women have more male-typical arousal, and are more masculine, than heterosexual women. Chapter 1 summarises the …
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Masculine stereotypes of lesbians and masculine-looking women : potential advantages of assumed agentic qualities in employment
… attributed to lesbian and masculine appearing women would provide an advantage in obtaining employment. Previous research has shown that lesbian women are favored over heterosexual women, and masculine appearing individuals are favored over feminine appearing individuals for traditionally …
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Investigating the discourses women draw on to understand violence in intimate relationships
The rate of violence against women by intimate male partners is extremely high in South Africa. Although violence against women has been researched from a variety of perspectives, little research has been done in South Africa on the discourses that women draw on to understand the violence. This …
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The women's health project: a community intervention for AIDS risk reduction in women
Since early 1983, the incidence and prevalence of heterosexually transmitted AIDS among women have increased at an alarming rate. However, due to the conceptualization of AIDS as a "gay male" disease, little research attention has been devoted to the prevention of HIV infection among women. The …
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Women, sexuality, and social control: A study in deviance
The perception of lesbian women as more criminal than heterosexual women can be seen in many facets of our culture over time. This study examines that perception as it appears in the media, government, politics, religion, entertainment, education and more. The assumption is also reviewed as it …
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The Perspective of Polyamorous Relationships from Heterosexual Polyamorous Women
… experience of polyamory from the perspective of heterosexual polyamorous women through a mononormative framework. Interpretive phenomenology was used because it gives participants the opportunity to express this phenomenon on their own terms. This study focused on understanding the experience of …
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Our Health Matters: Promoting the Health of Sexual Minority Women in the New Media Landscape
… the health and wellness of sexual minority women. As a population that has historically been underserved by the healthcare system, sexual minority women face multiple barriers to achieving positive health outcomes. They are often less likely to access preventive healthcare services and more …
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Exploring discourses of masculinity within women track athletes' lives in South Africa
… discourses of masculinity among university-level women track athletes across South Africa. Many scholars have delved into the narratives of racialization and masculinity among black women athletes, muscularity as a premise of athleticism, ‘tomboyism' and gender fluidities, as well as the policing …
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A Model of Individual, Relationship, and Societal Factors and Mental Health and Well-Being in Partnered Sexual Minority Women: The Central Role of Relationship Satisfaction
<p>Sexual minority women (SMW) are at increased risk for mental health disorders, substance abuse, and physical health problems compared to heterosexual women. For heterosexual individuals, romantic relationships have been found to be protective against a variety of health issues. Less research, …
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Intimate partner violence: The lived experience of single women
… was to examine, interpret, and understand single women's experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV). The study sought to find out if differences existed between the experiences of single women with IPV and other groups of women who have previously been studied. The question that guided the …
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Disgust Sensitivity, Sexual Trauma History, and Female Sexual Functioning
<p>Sexual dysfunctions are a common problem for women that negatively impact quality of life (Laumann, Paik, & Rosen 1999). A history of sexual trauma is associated with an increase in sexual difficulties (Neumann et al., 1996). One common reaction to unwanted sexual contact is disgust (Whealin & …
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