A Developmental Model of the Sexual Minority Closet: Structural Sensitization, Psychological Adaptations, and Post-closet Growth.
A Developmental Model of the Sexual Minority Closet: Structural Sensitization, Psychological Adaptations, and Post-closet Growth.
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性少数秘密柜的发展模型：结构敏感化、心理适应和秘密柜后成长。
DOI：
10.1007/s10508-022-02381-w
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发表时间：
2023
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3.8
通讯作者：
Jackson,SkylerD
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作者：
Pachankis,JohnE;Jackson,SkylerD
在一生中，大多数性少数个体都经历过“闭门”——在这段时间里，没有其他重要的人知道他们的性别身份。本文将衣柜定位为不同于柱头隐藏，因为它的典型持续时间为数年，并且通常在发育敏感时期从支持经常中心身份的来源中绝对移除。这里提出的壁橱的发展模型描述了在性取向意识之前发生的替代学习，以塑造一个人对壁橱的最终体验；压力源发生在一个人意识到自己的性取向但还没有公开之后，这通常发生在青春期；以及衣柜对心理健康的潜在持续寿命影响，受到披露的结构、人际关系、文化和时间背景的调节。本文概述了该模型借鉴和区别于早期性少数群体认同形成模型的方式，并提出了几个可测试的假设和未来的研究方向，包括多层次干预的测试。
Across the lifespan, most sexual minority individuals experience the closet—a typically prolonged period in which no significant others know their sexual identity. This paper positions the closet as distinct from stigma concealment given its typical duration in years and absolute removal from sources of support for an often-central identity typically during a developmentally sensitive period. The Developmental Model of the Closet proposed here delineates the vicarious learning that takes place before sexual orientation awareness to shape one’s eventual experience of the closet; the stressors that take place after one has become aware of their sexual orientation but has not yet disclosed it, which often takes place during adolescence; and potential lifespan-persistent mental health effects of the closet, as moderated by the structural, interpersonal, cultural, and temporal context of disclosure. The paper outlines the ways in which the model both draws upon and is distinct from earlier models of sexual minority identity formation and proposes several testable hypotheses and future research directions, including tests of multilevel interventions.