Wickham Robert E, Gutierrez Renee, Giordano Brenna L, Rostosky Sharon S, Riggle Ellen D B
Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
Assessment. 2021 Jun;28(4):1159-1172. doi: 10.1177/1073191119893010. Epub 2019 Dec 19.
Internalized homophobia (IH) refers to negative attitudes and stereotypes that a lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) person may hold regarding their own sexual identity. Recent sociocultural changes in attitudes and policies affecting LGB people generally reflect broader acceptance of sexual minorities, and may influence the manner in which LGB people experience IH. These experiences should be reflected in the measurement properties of instruments designed to assess IH. This study utilized data from three different samples ( = 3,522) of LGB individuals residing in the United States to examine the invariance of a common self-report IH measure by gender identity (Female, Male) and age cohort (Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials). Multigroup item response theory-differential item functioning analysis using the alignment method revealed that 6 of the 9 Internalized Homophobia Scale items exhibited differential functioning across gender and generation. Latent scores based on the invariant items suggested that Male and Female Boomers exhibited the lowest level of latent IH, relative to the other cohorts.
内化性恐同症（IH）是指女同性恋、男同性恋或双性恋（LGB）者对自身性取向持有的消极态度和刻板印象。近期，影响LGB群体的社会文化态度和政策变化总体上反映出对性少数群体的更广泛接纳，这可能会影响LGB群体体验内化性恐同症的方式。这些体验应体现在旨在评估内化性恐同症的工具的测量属性中。本研究利用来自居住在美国的LGB个体的三个不同样本（n = 3522）的数据，按性别认同（女性、男性）和年龄组（婴儿潮一代、X一代和千禧一代）检验一种常用的自我报告内化性恐同症测量方法的不变性。使用对齐法的多组项目反应理论——差异项目功能分析表明，内化性恐同症量表的9个项目中有6个在性别和代际间表现出差异功能。基于不变项目的潜在分数表明，相对于其他年龄组，男性和女性婴儿潮一代表现出的潜在内化性恐同症水平最低。
