Homosexuals in Poland: Gender, sexuality and personality

The research aimed to describe personality profiles and possible differences in terms of psychological gender of homosexual and heterosexual individuals.This was a survey study where the Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness Inventory – Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) and Inventory of Psychological Gender were administered.The project included 152 people. The homosexual group comprised of 59 males and 31 females, and the heterosexual group had an equal number of 31 males and females.A difference was found in the personality profiles of homosexual and heterosexual persons of both sexes. Homosexual women scored higher in neuroticism and conscientiousness than heterosexual women (p=0.001), while homosexual men had a significantly higher level of conscientiousness than heterosexuals (p=0.018): they represent an androgenic type of psychological gender, in which they consider themselves belonging to categories assigned by society to both men and women.