More evidence that societal individualism predicts prevalence of nonhomosexual orientation in male-to-female transsexualism

摘要

In an article published in Archives of Sexual Behavior (Lawrence, 2010), I examined the relationship between a measure of societal individualism-Hofstede's (2001) Individualism Index (ID V)-and the percentage of male-to-female (MtF) transsexuals who were nonhomosexual relative to natal sex (%NHS) in 22 studies of MtF transsexuals and gender dys-phoric men conducted in 16 different countries. I observed that IDV and %NHS were highly correlated (r = .88) and that IDV accounted for 77% of the variance in %NHS. Additional studies containing comparable data for several countries have subsequently been published, so I decided to examine whether a similar con-elation between IDV and %NHS was found in these studies as well.