Article: The development of gender schemata about heterosexual and homosexual others during adolescence.

The emergence of psychosexual behaviors is both a fundamental aspect of human development and one of the most intimate concerns of adolescents. Both the fact that most adolescents are uncomfortable with this developmental phenomenon and the intimate nature of human sexuality render adolescent sexuality an especially difficult topic of investigation. Perhaps as a consequence of this difficulty, Brooks-Gunn and Furstenberg (1989) noted that "what sexuality means to adolescents, how it relates to other aspects of teenage life, and what strategies teens use to manage and incorporate it into their lives, have not been studied in any detail" (p. 249). In the present study, the ...

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