Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples Federico II, 80138 Napoli, Italy.
SInAPSi Center, University of Naples Federico II, 80138 Napoli, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Oct 22;15(10):2318. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15102318.
Despite the rapid increase in lesbian and gay (LG) people who desire and decide to become parents, LG childless individuals may encounter serious obstacles in the parenthood process, such as minority stress. Notwithstanding, the psychological processes by which prejudice events might affect the desire to become parents are still understudied. As an extension of the minority stress theory, the psychological mediation framework sheds light on these psychological processes, as it encompasses a more clinical view of stress. Within this framework, the current study aimed at assessing the role of prejudice events in affecting parenting desire in 290 childless Italian LG individuals (120 lesbians and 170 gay men), as well as the role of internalized heterosexism and sexual orientation concealment in mediating the relationship between prejudice events and parenting desire. The results suggest that only in lesbians prejudice events were negatively associated with parenting desire, and that sexual orientation concealment and internalized heterosexism were also negatively associated with parenting desire. Furthermore, sexual orientation concealment, and not internalized heterosexism, mediated the relationship between prejudice events and parenting desire in lesbians, but not gay men. The findings have important implications for clinical practice.
尽管越来越多的女同性恋和男同性恋（LG）人群渴望并决定成为父母，但 LG 无子个体在育儿过程中可能会遇到严重障碍，例如少数群体压力。尽管如此，关于偏见事件如何影响成为父母的愿望的心理过程仍在研究之中。作为少数群体压力理论的延伸，心理中介框架阐明了这些心理过程，因为它包含了对压力的更临床的看法。在这个框架内，本研究旨在评估偏见事件在影响 290 名无子的意大利 LG 个体（120 名女同性恋者和 170 名男同性恋者）的育儿愿望方面的作用，以及内化的异性恋恐惧症和性取向隐瞒在介导偏见事件与育儿愿望之间的关系中的作用。结果表明，只有在女同性恋者中，偏见事件与育儿愿望呈负相关，而性取向隐瞒和内化的异性恋恐惧症也与育儿愿望呈负相关。此外，性取向隐瞒，而不是内化的异性恋恐惧症，在女同性恋者中介导了偏见事件和育儿愿望之间的关系，但在男同性恋者中则没有。研究结果对临床实践具有重要意义。
