Flanders Corey E, Tarasoff Lesley A, Legge Melissa Marie, Robinson Margaret, Gos Giselle
a Social Epidemiological Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health , Toronto , Ontario , Canada.
b Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto , Toronto , Ontario , Canada.
J Homosex. 2017;64(8):1014-1032. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2016.1236592. Epub 2016 Oct 31.
The majority of LGBTQ psychological research focuses on dysfunction. The exclusion of strengths-based perspectives in LGBTQ psychology limits the understanding of LGBTQ mental health. In this article we report experiences that young bisexual and other nonmonosexual people perceive as affirming of their sexual identity. A 28-day, daily diary study was used to investigate whether bisexual-identified participants encountered positive experiences related to their sexual identity, and which type of experiences they perceived to be positive. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, participants' experiences were organized according to a social ecological model. Experiences were reported at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and institutional levels, but most positive sexual identity experiences occurred at the interpersonal level. Implications for positive health outcome research and the integration of positive psychology with LGBTQ psychology are discussed, as well as study limitations.
大多数 LGBTQ 心理学研究聚焦于功能失调。LGBTQ 心理学中基于优势视角的缺失限制了对 LGBTQ 心理健康的理解。在本文中，我们报告了年轻双性恋者和其他非单一性取向者认为能肯定其性取向的经历。一项为期 28 天的每日日记研究用于调查自我认同为双性恋的参与者是否遇到与其性取向相关的积极经历，以及他们认为哪些类型的经历是积极的。采用建构主义扎根理论方法，根据社会生态模型对参与者的经历进行组织。经历在个人、人际和机构层面进行报告，但大多数积极的性取向认同经历发生在人际层面。文中讨论了对积极健康结果研究的启示以及积极心理学与 LGBTQ 心理学的整合，同时也提及了研究局限性。
