This study examined the correlation that exists between cognitive flexibility and sexual identity. The researchers, Julie Konik and Mary Crawford aimed to answer the call for representation of sexual minorities within psychological research to learn more about the psyche of socially outnumbered groups. Based upon past research that suggested a possible positive correlation between homosexuals and normative creativity, Konik and Crawford formulated the hypothesis which proposed that homosexual people had higher levels of normative creativity. They explained this correlation within the theory that heterosexual people lived with less concern for social norms because of their minority status.
The sample of this study included 358 undergraduate and graduate students from multiple eastern universities who each received a survey in-person or through the mail. In order to gain more participants from the LGB community, the researchers utilized snowball sampling by asking the preexisting LGB participants to invite other people they may know who are LGB. The survey contained The Cognitive Flexibility Scale developed in previous studies that tested and described each participant’s approach to alternatives presented …show more content…
This analysis indicated a correlation between sexual identity yet no correlation between cognitive flexibility and gender or between sexual identity and gender. here was not an important contrast between the cognitive flexibility scores of heterosexuals versus homosexuals. More importantly, the analysis showed that the participant who identified with the nonexclusive sexual identity, “bisexual” or “other,” scored higher on the scale of cognitive flexibility. This finding is significant because it defies their original hypothesis and presents new information for future studies of those with nonexclusive sexual
The sample of this study included 358 undergraduate and graduate students from multiple eastern universities who each received a survey in-person or through the mail. In order to gain more participants from the LGB community, the researchers utilized snowball sampling by asking the preexisting LGB participants to invite other people they may know who are LGB. The survey contained The Cognitive Flexibility Scale developed in previous studies that tested and described each participant’s approach to alternatives presented …show more content…
This analysis indicated a correlation between sexual identity yet no correlation between cognitive flexibility and gender or between sexual identity and gender. here was not an important contrast between the cognitive flexibility scores of heterosexuals versus homosexuals. More importantly, the analysis showed that the participant who identified with the nonexclusive sexual identity, “bisexual” or “other,” scored higher on the scale of cognitive flexibility. This finding is significant because it defies their original hypothesis and presents new information for future studies of those with nonexclusive sexual