caa a22 4500 60623232X CHVBK 20210128101226.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0401-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0401-4 Sexual Orientation Prototypicality and Well-Being Among Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Adults [Elektronische Daten] [Brian Feinstein, Nathalie Meuwly, Joanne Davila, Nicholas Eaton, Athena Yoneda] The current study examined the associations between sexual orientation prototypicality—or the extent to which an individual's attractions or sexual behaviors are similar to others in the same sexual orientation category—and several indicators of well-being (depressive symptoms, loneliness, and self-esteem). Data were analyzed from a sample of 586 self-identified heterosexual and sexual minority (lesbian/gay and bisexual) men and women who completed an online survey. We used k-means cluster analysis to assign individuals to sexual orientation clusters (resulting in heterosexual and sexual minority clusters) based on dimensions of same-sex and other-sex attractions (emotional, romantic, and sexual) and sexual behavior. Sexual orientation prototypicality was operationalized as the Euclidean distance between an individual's position in the cluster and their cluster centroid. Lower sexual orientation prototypicality (i.e., greater Euclidean distance from one's cluster centroid) was significantly associated with higher depressive symptoms, higher loneliness, and lower self-esteem for men and women; results did not significantly differ for self-identified heterosexuals versus sexual minorities. Although self-identified sexual orientation and sexual orientation prototypicality were both associated with well-being for women, only sexual orientation prototypicality was associated with well-being for men. Findings suggest that sexual orientation prototypicality may be a better indicator of well-being than sexual orientation for men. Further, sexual orientation prototypicality appears to play a significant role in well-being for women. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Sexual orientation nationallicence Gay nationallicence Lesbian nationallicence Bisexual nationallicence Prototypicality nationallicence Feinstein Brian Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, 11794-2500, Stony Brook, NY, USA aut Meuwly Nathalie Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, 11794-2500, Stony Brook, NY, USA aut Davila Joanne Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, 11794-2500, Stony Brook, NY, USA aut Eaton Nicholas Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, 11794-2500, Stony Brook, NY, USA aut Yoneda Athena Department of Veterans Affairs, Pacific Island Health Care Systems, Honolulu, HI, USA aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1415-1422 0004-0002 44:5<1415 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0401-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0401-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Feinstein Brian Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, 11794-2500, Stony Brook, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Meuwly Nathalie Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, 11794-2500, Stony Brook, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Davila Joanne Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, 11794-2500, Stony Brook, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eaton Nicholas Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, 11794-2500, Stony Brook, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yoneda Athena Department of Veterans Affairs, Pacific Island Health Care Systems, Honolulu, HI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1415-1422 0004-0002 44:5<1415 2015 44 10508