Social involvement disclosure of sexual orientation, and the quality of lesbian relationships
Social involvement disclosure of sexual orientation, and the quality of lesbian relationships
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DOI：
10.1111/1471-6402.00002
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发表时间：
2001-03-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Peplau, LA
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作者：
Beals, KP;Peplau, LA
男女同性恋政治活动家鼓励女同性恋者“出柜”并参与其中。这对女同性恋夫妇来说是个好建议吗？在对 1979 年美国夫妇研究（Blumstein & Schwartz，1983）中从 784 对女同性恋夫妇收集的数据进行二次分析中，我们检验了社会参与和性取向的披露是否与女性关系的质量有系统的联系。我们预测并发现，社会参与水平匹配的伴侣比不匹配的伴侣更幸福。女性社会参与程度与关系质量呈曲线关系：适度参与的夫妻满意度最高。与预测相反，向更多重要他人透露信息的女同性恋者并没有拥有更令人满意的恋爱关系，自我表露的伴侣匹配也没有提高关系质量。
Gay and lesbian political activists encourage lesbians to "come out" and get involved. Is this good advice for lesbian couples. In these secondary analyses of data collected from 784 lesbian couples in 1979 for the American Couples Study (Blumstein & Schwartz, 1983), we examined whether social involvement and disclosure of sexual orientation were systematically associated with the quality of women's relationships. We predicted and found that partners matched on level of social involvement were happier than mismatched couples. The extent of women's social involvement had a curvilinear association with relationship quality: moderately involved couples were the most satisfied. Contrary to predictions, lesbians who had disclosed to a greater number of important others did not have more satisfying romantic relationships, nor did partner matching on self-disclosure enhance relationship quality.