Microsocial factors as determinants of non-traditional sexual orientation of young males

At present time the shift of gender roles - the feminization of men and women - touches upon the global issues of organization of the modern society and the relationship between sexes. There is no common reason for homosexuality, so there is a debate about male homosexuality origin between proponents of innateness and hereditability of this sexual orientation and proponents of its acquisition during the life. One of the microsocial determinants of orientation, in our opinion, may be characteristics of the child-parent relationships in family. Thereupon there was a research concentrated on the analysis of the impact of microsocial factors, such as characteristics of the child-parent relationships on formation of non-traditional sexual orientation (NSO) of young people. There was an empirical study in Kemerovo and Tomsk (the project LaSky Kemerovo, Tomsk). The researcher sets forth the goal of study and its process, it was confidential. 30 men aged between 16 and 32, who have non-traditional sexual orientation, have taken part in it. The test of T. Leary ''Behavior of parents and attitude of teenagers to them'' was used for the collection of the empirical data. The questionnaire-interview was used to study the mother's image and father's image and opinion about non-traditional sexual orientation. 13 open questions were given. The results were processed by means of content-analysis. Mathematical data processing of psychological diagnosing was carried out by means of correlation analysis with using U-criterion of Mann-Whitney. According to the goals of the research the categories of content-analysis revealed relevant topics. In the answers there was a positive attitude to NSO and positive relation to mother in comparison with relation to father. The young people have suspiciousness and subordination that may be connected with the situation of a long conflict and lack of self-confidence. Mother's image in perception of the respondents was more directive than the father's. The research of interconnection of NSO and the results of ''attitude to mother'' and ''attitude to father'' made it possible to surmise that NSO is connected with the positive attitude to mother and aggression of father. Results of this empirical study enable to conjecture that some microsocial factors such as relations in the family may be determinants of non-traditional sexual orientation of young males, along with other factors.

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