Hoy-Ellis Charles P
a College of Social Work , University of Utah , Salt Lake City , Utah , USA.
J Homosex. 2016;63(4):487-506. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2015.1088317. Epub 2015 Aug 31.
Recent population-based studies indicate that sexual minorities aged 50 and older experience significantly higher rates of psychological distress than their heterosexual age-peers. The minority stress model has been useful in explaining disparately high rates of psychological distress among younger sexual minorities. The purpose of this study is to test a hypothesized structural relationship between two minority stressors--internalized heterosexism and concealment of sexual orientation--and consequent psychological distress among a sample of 2,349 lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults aged 50 to 95 years old. Structural equation modeling indicates that concealment has a nonsignificant direct effect on psychological distress but a significant indirect effect that is mediated through internalized heterosexism; the effect of concealment is itself concealed. This may explain divergent results regarding the role of concealment in psychological distress in other studies, and the implications will be discussed.
近期基于人群的研究表明,50岁及以上的性少数群体经历心理困扰的比率显著高于同龄异性恋者。少数群体压力模型有助于解释年轻性少数群体中心理困扰发生率异常高的现象。本研究的目的是检验两个少数群体压力源——内化的异性恋主义和性取向隐瞒——与2349名年龄在50至95岁之间的女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋成年人样本中随之产生的心理困扰之间的假设结构关系。结构方程模型表明,隐瞒对心理困扰没有显著的直接影响,但有通过内化的异性恋主义介导的显著间接影响;隐瞒的影响本身被掩盖了。这可能解释了其他研究中关于隐瞒在心理困扰中的作用的不同结果,并将讨论其影响。