Correlates of a Single-Item Indicator Versus a Multi-Item Scale of Outness About Same-Sex Attraction.
In this study, we investigated if a single-item indicator measured the degree to which people were open about their same-sex attraction ("out") as accurately as a multi-item scale. For the multi-item scale, we used the Outness Inventory, which includes three subscales: family, world, and religion. W...
| Publicado en: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 45; no. 5; pp. 1269 - 1278 |
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