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Stability And Change In Self-Reported Sexual Orientation Identity In Young People: Application Of Mobility Metrics, Miles Q. Ott, Heather L. Corliss, David Wypij, Margaret Rosario, S. Bryn Austin

Statistical and Data Sciences: Faculty Publications

This study investigated stability and change in self-reported sexual orientation identity over time in youth. We describe gender- and age-related changes in sexual orientation identity from early adolescence through emerging adulthood in 13,840 youth ages 12–25 employing mobility measure M, a measure we modified from its original application for econometrics. Using prospective data from a large, ongoing cohort of U.S. adolescents, we examined mobility in sexual orientation identity in youth with up to four waves of data. Ten percent of males and 20% of females at some point described themselves as a sexual minority, while 2% of both males and …