Parental Influences on Aggression: A Comparative Study with Homosexual and Heterosexual Adults

The current data set aimed to compare the tendency for aggression and its familial and other predictors in homosexual and heterosexual Turks.

It was seen that the total BPAQ score and verbal aggression and anger scores in the homosexual group were statistically higher than the heterosexual group. When the distribution of the groups according to their PARI scores was examined, significant differences were found in the subscales of rejection of the homemaking role and marital conflict-incompatibility (p<0.05). In the regression analyses performed, it was observed that the mean BPAQ score of homosexual adults was affected by their age, status of living with their families, exposure to verbal and physical violence due to their homosexuality, the attitudes of their acquaintances not wanting to meet with them after their sexual disclosure, and the situation of receiving judicial punishment (F(6,134): 6,234; p=0,000, p<0.01). These six predictive independent variables included in the final regression model developed were found to explain 21.8% of the total variance of total BPAQ scores (R=,467, R2=0,22,, p<0.01).