4 Options Survey ― Researching Healthy Paths for Sexual Minorities


The largest and most thorough study to date seeking to understand healthy and sustainable life paths for sexual minorities, including faith-based individuals.

The 4 Options Survey is to date the largest and most thorough study seeking to understand healthy and sustainable life paths for sexual minorities, including faith-based individuals to investigate if or how religious/spiritual issues are involved in respondents’ level of satisfaction and relationship or single status.

This survey was designed to identify important aspects of life and relationships for those who experience (or have experienced) same-sex sexual attractions and identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer (LGBQ), heterosexual, or with another sexual identity or reject a label, and analyze if there are any similarities or differences between those who are: 1) Single and celibate; 2) Single and not celibate; 3) In a heterosexual/mixed-orientation relationship; or 4) In a same-sex relationship.

Sexuality and sexual identity can be personally sensitive and politically divisive. In order to be as comprehensive and inclusive as possible of different individuals’ and communities’ experiences, an ideologically diverse research team assembled to collaborate in the spirit of the work of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and others in speaking to the importance of political diversity to advancing social science (see “Political diversity will improve social psychological science,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, 1-58).

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