Concealing Concealment: The Mediating Role of Internalized Heterosexism in Psychological Distress Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Older Adults.
Concealing Concealment: The Mediating Role of Internalized Heterosexism in Psychological Distress Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Older Adults.
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DOI：
10.1080/00918369.2015.1088317
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Hoy-Ellis CP
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Hoy-Ellis CP
最近基于人口的研究表明，年龄在50岁及以上的性少数群体比同龄的异性恋群体经历心理困扰的比例要高得多。少数群体压力模型在解释年轻的性少数群体中不同比例的高心理困扰方面很有用。本研究的目的是在2349名年龄在50到95岁的男女同性恋和双性恋成年人中测试两种少数压力源——内化异性恋和隐瞒性取向——与随之而来的心理困扰之间的假设结构关系。结构方程模型表明，隐藏对心理困扰的直接影响不显著，但通过内化异性恋介导的间接影响显著；隐藏的效果本身就是隐藏的。这可以解释其他研究中关于隐藏在心理困扰中的作用的不同结果，并将讨论其含义。
Recent population-based studies indicate that sexual minorities aged 50 and older experience significantly higher rates of psychological distress than their heterosexual age-peers. The minority stress model has been useful in explaining disparately high rates of psychological distress among younger sexual minorities. The purpose of this study is to test a hypothesized structural relationship between two minority stressors—internalized heterosexism and concealment of sexual orientation—and consequent psychological distress among a sample of 2,349 lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults aged 50 to 95 years old. Structural equation modeling indicates that concealment has a nonsignificant direct effect on psychological distress but a significant indirect effect that is mediated through internalized heterosexism; the effect of concealment is itself concealed. This may explain divergent results regarding the role of concealment in psychological distress in other studies, and the implications will be discussed.