Abstract
Assessing the relevance of temperament traits to predict sexual fluidity, taking into account gender and sexual orientation, was the main goal of this paper. Participants (435 Spanish young-adults students, 310 females and 125 males) completed an online questionnaire, which included measures of sexual fluidity, the short version of the Big Five Inventory, two factors of Sensation Seeking Scale, and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Analyses showed gender differences in sexual fluidity, anxiety and sensation seeking. Sexually fluid individuals also reported higher scores than no-sexually fluid individuals in these factors. Bisexual orientation, anxiety-trait and sensation seeking were good predictors of female sexual fluidity. Anxiety state was relevant to male sexual fluidity. We concluded that sexual fluidity can be related to emotional and biological personality traits, but it is not clear if the origin of this relationship is only biologically caused or depends on experience moderator effects. Again, the controversy nature-nurture is needed to be considered when assessing sexual fluidity across life-span.
Highlights
IntroductionMany people experience dissonances among their individual sexuality components through their sexual development
Sexual fluidity The Institute of Medicine defines sexual orientation as a multi-dimensional construct composed by attractions, sexual behaviour and sexual orientation identity (Sanders, Feit, & Alper, 2013)
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between sexual fluidity and temperament: basic tendencies like basic traits, anxiety like trait and state and sensation seeking like biologically determined traits, taking into account gender and sexual orientation
Summary
Many people experience dissonances among their individual sexuality components through their sexual development. The research on sexual minority women (Diamond, 2008) introduced the possible change of sexual orientation identity in women like a capacity for situation-dependent flexibility in sexual responsiveness, which allows individuals to experience changes in desire and behavior to same-sex or other-sex across both short-term and long-term periods. A growing body of research on sexual fluidity reveals that women are more sexually fluids than men (Diamond, 2008; Diamond, 2016; Kinnish, Strassberg, Turner, 2005). Second theory, is based on Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory and tries to understand and explain the sexual identity development in both women and men
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