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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"outness"”.
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The Relations Among Outness, Authenticity, and Well Being for Bisexual Adults
Outness, a proximal minority stressor for sexual minority people, demonstrated inconsistent relationships with well-being. A possible explanation for these varied findings is that characteristics of one’s sexual minority identity (e.g. identity prominence) moderate the relationship between proximal …
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Outness as a protective factor against risky sex in gay males
… 18 through 30 to assess whether or not level of outness influenced the likelihood of an individual to engage in risky sexual behaviors. Participants completed an online survey that measured each individual's level of outness, mental health symptoms, likelihood to engage in risky sexual behavior, …
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The Impact of Outness and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity Formation on Mental Health
… for the relationship between first disclosure, outness, sexual minority identity, and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. That is, while the relationship between LGB identity and mental health has been relatively consistently positive in the literature, the …
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Outness Through a Cultural Lens: Self-Construal Impacts Disclosure Among Diverse Sexual Minority Individuals
… interdependence), disclosure tendencies (e.g., outness), and other key variables related to sexual identity management (e.g., perceived heterosexism, acceptance concerns, internalized homonegativity, and identity centrality), as well as in the predictive effects of these sexual identity …
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The Effects of Internalized Homonegativity, Outness, and Depression on Sexual Risk Prevention Behaviors of Minority Men Who Have Sex With Men
… to provide an understanding of the effect of outness, homonegativity, and depression on the odds of engaging in treatment as prevention (TaSP) overtime using generalized linear mixed effect models. In addition, the linear mixed effect model was employed to determine if there were significant …
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Digital dating abuse in the LGBTQIA+ community
… to experience DDA. However, a person’s level of outness, as it relates to their sexual orientation and/or gender orientation has not been explored in the current literary landscape. The current study aimed to fill gaps in the literature by examining the prevalence of DDA behaviors among the …
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The Roles of Resilience and Perceived Discrimination in Sexual Minority Identity Integration
… completed an online survey examining areas of outness, resilience, effect and frequency of perceived discrimination (EPD and FPD), and LGB identity status. Hierarchical regression results indicated that while resilience does not moderate EPD and FPD in predicting degree of outness, along with …
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A Rose By Any Other Name: An Examination of Rural Lesbian Identities in the Upper Midwest
… to report on their activities, feelings, outness, and other topics. There were 74 total respondents.</p> <p>The data analysis revealed important relationships between outness, specific LGBT activities, personal feelings about being lesbian, and commitment to the lesbian label. Further, a …
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Working in a Majority Context: A Structural Model of the Antecedents and Outcomes of Heterosexism in the Workplace
… as the role of sexual orientation disclosure (""outness"") to these experiences. Heterosexism is assessed via a new measure, the Workplace Heterosexist Experiences Questionnaire, which includes items addressing both direct (e.g., anti-gay jokes) and indirect experiences (e.g., assumptions of …
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The Mental Health of Southeast Asian American LGBTQIA+ Adults
… this sample reported low to moderate levels of outness about sexual orientation (<em>M</em> = 3.2, <em>SD</em> = 1.3). Participants indicated the highest levels of support for sexual orientation from Siblings (<em>M</em> = 4.6, <em>SD</em> = 2.3), New Straight Friends (<em>M</em> = 4.5, …
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Working it "Out": A Relational Understanding of Disclosure Decisions in Same-Gender Couples
… framework was used to explore how partners do outness. To address the needs of the literature, constructivist grounded theory methods were employed in analyzing the data. These findings showed that the majority of couples believed they had a "mutual understanding" of the rules and boundaries in …
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Liberation and Inclusion Through the Voices of Trans Youth: A Phenomenological Approach
… three essences emerged: adultism, situational outness, and defiant joy/resistance. Findings from this study can be used to inform high-quality adult education on trans identities and inclusion for educational leaders and school staff. Findings can also inform trans inclusive policy at district …
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Exploring the Coming Out Experience Through Animal Self-portraiture
… the Formal Elements of Art Therapy Scale. The Outness Inventory, and self-report data provided an idea of how this directive may be used. Differences between the drawings were present, however t-test analysis of FEATS subscalcs proved statistically insignificant. All but two of the participants …
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Perceived barriers and minority stress in college ecosystems as factors of support for LGBTQIA+ students’ utilization of campus resources
… diminishing levels of support, impact of “outness”, and the existence of LGBTQIA+-informed resources. The findings of this study emphasize the need for LGBTQIA+-informed and inclusive resources to better support this population of students on college campuses. Minority stress can be …
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Health Insurance Experiences of Gay Father Families: Perceptions, Disclosure, and Roles
… (c) discussing issues of disclosure and outness in gay father families, and (d) uncovering continued gender associations with the division of labor. This study has more broad implications for theoretical concepts like intersectionality and agency, but also provides insights into policy …
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Male Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence: Syndemic Theory, Minority Stress Theory, & the Community of Protective Measures
… factors as social support, sexual orientation “outness” (the extent to which a person’s sexual orientation is known to their family, friends, co-workers and others), and safe sex behaviors (or the lack of high-risk sexual behaviors). The goal of this dissertation study was to investigate the …
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Cross-generational posttraumatic growth after coming out
… each measure while controlling for level of outness. Results indicated significant age group differences in all three measures of growth, and that age group was significantly associated with growth on several subscale domains. Older adults reported significantly higher levels of growth in …
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Exploring the community-based involvement of Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ adults
… religiosity/spirituality, sexual identity outness, and psychological well-being. Key findings exhibited the utility of considering multiple sites of community-based involvement when exploring the engagement behaviors of Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ Adults.
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Remodeling the Closet: The Individual and Organizational Correlates of Workplace Sexual Identity Management
… sexual identity management strategies: general outness, concealment, and disclosure, as well as whether differences existed based on gender and sexual identity (i.e., gay- and lesbian-identified vs. bisexual-identified employees). Study 1 used a broad-based survey sample to explore these …
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The interpersonal and mental health implications of the coherence of coming out narratives for a sample of gay men in committed romantic relationships
… the time of disclosure, as well as the degree of Outness at the time of the study. Results revealed that participant’s narratives on the COI varied with regard to Preoccupied and Dismissing current state of mind, suggesting that the AAI coding system provides a viable organizing framework for …
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