Attitudes toward bisexual men and women among a nationally representative probability sample of adults in the United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Dodge, Brian ^a   Herbenick, Debby ^a   Friedman, M Reuel ^b   Schick, Vanessa ^c   Fu, Tsung Chieh ^a   Bostwick, Wendy ^d   Bartelt, Elizabeth ^a   Muñoz Laboy, Miguel ^e   Pletta, David ^a   Reece, Michael ^a   Sandfort, Theo G M ^f  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIOR; BISEXUAL FEMALE; BISEXUAL MALE; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HOMOSEXUAL FEMALE; HOMOSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIANA; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; POPULATION; PROBABILITY SAMPLE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; SEXUAL HEALTH; STATISTICS; STUDENT T TEST; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; BISEXUALITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; LESBIANISM; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84992579452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164430     Document Type: Article

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