Developmental trajectories and milestones of lesbian, gay, and bisexual young people
Developmental trajectories and milestones of lesbian, gay, and bisexual young people
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DOI：
10.3109/09540261.2015.1093465
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发表时间：
2015-09-03
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2.8
通讯作者：
Cohen, Kenneth M.
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作者：
Savin-Williams, Ritch C.;Cohen, Kenneth M.
女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋（LGB）年轻人经历着各种各样的发展轨迹，这些轨迹由里程碑组成，其顺序和时间因人而异。它们包括与同龄人不同的早期感觉、同性吸引的开始、质疑自己的性取向、第一次同性性经历、认可和自我标签、向他人披露、第一次恋爱关系和自我接受。简要回顾了20世纪70年代和80年代同性恋青年的发明，重点是早期研究创造的肖像未能捕捉到千禧一代年轻人的发展轨迹。尽管一些年轻人在经历这些里程碑的过程中与心理健康问题作斗争，但研究记录了绝大多数LGB年轻人的复杂性、多样性和规范性。越来越多的发展、行为和社会科学家现在强调，许多当代年轻人放弃了性困惑，认识到他们所吸引和爱的性或性别，并相信他们和异性恋的年轻人一样心理健康。
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) young people experience a variety of developmental trajectories that consist of milestones, the sequence and timing of which differ across individuals. They include early feelings of being different from peers, the onset of same-sex attraction, questioning one's sexuality, first same-sex sexual experience, recognition and self-labelling, disclosure to others, first romantic relationship, and self-acceptance. The invention of gay youth' during the 1970s and 1980s is briefly reviewed with an emphasis on the ways in which the portrait created by early research fails to capture the developmental trajectories of millennial young people. Although some young people struggle with mental health problems as they navigate these milestones, research documents the complexity, variety, and normative nature of the vast majority of LGB young people. A growing chorus of developmental, behavioural, and social scientists now emphasize that many contemporary young people forego sexual confusion, recognize the sex or gender to which they are attracted to and love, and believe they are as mentally healthy as heterosexual young people.