Kept in the Closet: Structural Stigma and the Timing of Sexual Minority Developmental Milestones Across 28 European Countries.

Autor: Layland EK; Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Delaware, 111 Alison Hall West, Newark, DE, 19716, USA. layland@udel.edu.; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, 60 College St, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA. layland@udel.edu., Bränström R; Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 9, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden., Murchison GR; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, 60 College St, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA., Pachankis JE; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, 60 College St, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of youth and adolescence [J Youth Adolesc] 2023 Oct; Vol. 52 (10), pp. 2012-2030. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 06.
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-023-01818-2
Abstrakt: Structural stigma's role in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people's attainment of identity development milestones remains unknown. In a sample of 111,498 LGB people (ages 15 to 65+) living across 28 European countries, associations were investigated between structural stigma measured using an objective index of discriminatory country-level laws and policies affecting LGB people and the timing and pacing of LGB self-awareness, coming out, and closet duration, and subgroup differences in these associations. On average, self-awareness occurred at age 14.8 years old (SD = 5.1), coming out occurred at 18.5 years old (SD = 5.7), and the closet was 3.9 years long (SD = 4.9); thereby highlighting adolescence as a key period for sexual identity development and disclosure. Greater structural stigma was associated with higher odds of never coming out, later age of coming out, and longer closet duration. Gender identity, transgender identity, and sexual identity moderated associations between structural stigma and these developmental milestones. Reducing structural stigma can plausibly promote sexual identity development among LGB populations, especially during adolescence when identity related milestones are often attained.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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