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Developmental Stages of the Coming Out Process
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In this paper, five developmental stages which describe the patterns seen in individuals with predominantly same-sex sexual orientation are described, i.e. pre-coming out, coming out, exploration, first relationship, and identity integration.Abstract:
Five developmental stages which describe the patterns seen in individuals with predominantly same-sex sexual orientation are described in the paper. The stages are: pre-coming out, coming out, exploration, first relationship, and identity integration.read more
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Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence
TL;DR: It is shown that LGBs have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than heterosexuals and a conceptual framework is offered for understanding this excess in prevalence of disorder in terms of minority stress--explaining that stigma, prejudice, and discrimination create a hostile and stressful social environment that causes mental health problems.
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Minority stress and mental health in gay men
TL;DR: The results supported minority stress hypotheses: each of the stressors had a significant independent association with a variety of mental health measures and odds ratios suggested that men who had high levels of minority stress were twice to three times as likely to suffer also from high level of distress.
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Homosexual identity formation: Testing a theoretical model
TL;DR: In this article, a questionnaire was constructed to measure a number of factors believed to be critical to homosexual identity development and the results indicated that these findings were not the result of researcher bias, a discriminant analysis was carried out.
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The disclosure dilemma for gay men and lesbians: "Coming out" at work.
TL;DR: Self-acceptance, the centrality of one's identity, how "out" one is to friends and family, employer policies, and perceived employer gay-supportiveness were associated with disclosure behaviors at work for gay/lesbian employees.
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The SAGE Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination
TL;DR: Theoretical and empirical overview of the topic of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination can be found in this paper, where Dovidio et al. describe the basic processes and causes of prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination.