Internalized Stigma Among Sexual Minority Adults: Insights From a Social Psychological Perspective
Internalized Stigma Among Sexual Minority Adults: Insights From a Social Psychological Perspective
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DOI：
10.1037/a0014672
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Cogan, Jeanine C.
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作者：
Herek, Gregory M.;Gillis, J. Roy;Cogan, Jeanine C.
本文描述了一个理解性污名的社会心理学框架，并报告了性少数个体的污名相关经历的数据。该框架区分了社会机构（异性恋）和个人之间的成见表现。后者包括制定的性耻辱（对性少数群体的公开负面行为，如仇恨犯罪），感受到的性耻辱（对性耻辱将被制定的情况的期望）和内化的性耻辱（个人接受性耻辱作为一个人的价值体系和自我概念的一部分）。根据以前关于异性恋者内在性耻辱的研究（即，性偏见），这篇文章考虑了性少数群体如何经历内化的性耻辱（即，自我污名，或对自我的消极态度）。数据来自一个社区样本的女同性恋，男同性恋和双性恋的成年人（N = 2,259），以说明该模型的效用产生和测试假设自我污名。
This article describes a social psychological framework for understanding sexual stigma, and it reports data on sexual minority individuals' stigma-related experiences. The framework distinguishes between stigma's manifestations in society's institutions (heterosexism) and among individuals. The latter include enacted sexual stigma (overt negative actions against sexual minorities, such as hate crimes), felt sexual stigma (expectations about the circumstances in which sexual stigma will be enacted), and internalized sexual stigma (personal acceptance of sexual stigma as part of one's value system and self-concept). Drawing from previous research on internalized sexual stigma among heterosexuals (i.e., sexual prejudice), the article considers possible parallels in how sexual minorities experience internalized sexual stigma (i.e., self-stigma, or negative attitudes toward the self). Data are presented from a community sample of lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults (N = 2,259) to illustrate the model's utility for generating and testing hypotheses concerning self-stigma.