Bahamondes Joaquín, Barrientos Jaime, Guzmán-González Mónica, Garrido-Rojas Lusmenia, Gómez Fabiola, Espinoza-Tapia Ricardo
Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile.
Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile.
J Lesbian Stud. 2023;27(1):22-40. doi: 10.1080/10894160.2022.2122197. Epub 2022 Sep 14.
Heterosexism is not only expressed through sexual prejudice as an external stressor, but also as an internalized rejection toward one's own (and others') sexually diverse identity. That is, lesbian women and gay men themselves internalize negative societal attitudes toward their sexual orientation and identity-a phenomenon called internalized homonegativity. A wealth of research shows that internalized homonegativity negatively affects the health and social adjustment of gay and lesbian people. However, the literature has documented this trend from an individual (over a dyadic) perspective, and largely among gay (over lesbian) samples. To address this oversight, we analyzed data from 210 gay and lesbian couples in Chile to examine both actor and partner effects of internalized homonegativity on their sexual satisfaction. Results from moderation analyses from an actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) approach show that partners' internalized homonegativity negatively affects actor sexual satisfaction, a pattern significantly moderated by gender; that is, only observed among lesbian couples. Our results further demonstrated that these effects hold above and beyond the actor and partner effects of age and relationship satisfaction, as well as relationship length. These results are consistent with the broader literature, which discusses the specific features of internalized homonegativity in lesbian women, characterized-among other aspects-by restrictive social demands over their sexuality. Accordingly, our findings highlight the deleterious relational consequences of internalized homonegativity and offer a relevant empirical contribution to the understanding of specific minority stress dynamics among lesbian women.
异性恋主义不仅通过作为外部压力源的性偏见来表达,还表现为对自身(以及他人)性取向多元身份的内化排斥。也就是说,女同性恋者和男同性恋者自身将社会对其性取向和身份的负面态度内化——这一现象被称为内化的同性恋消极态度。大量研究表明,内化的同性恋消极态度会对同性恋者的健康和社会适应产生负面影响。然而,文献主要从个体(而非二元关系)的角度记录了这一趋势,且大多是在男同性恋(而非女同性恋)样本中。为了弥补这一疏漏,我们分析了来自智利的210对同性恋伴侣的数据,以检验内化的同性恋消极态度对他们性满意度的行为者效应和伴侣效应。行为者-伴侣相互依赖模型(APIM)方法的调节分析结果表明,伴侣的内化同性恋消极态度会对行为者的性满意度产生负面影响,这种模式受性别显著调节;也就是说,仅在女同性恋伴侣中观察到。我们的结果进一步表明,这些效应在年龄、关系满意度以及关系时长的行为者效应和伴侣效应之外依然存在。这些结果与更广泛的文献一致,该文献讨论了女同性恋者内化同性恋消极态度的具体特征,在其他方面,其特征包括对她们性行为的严格社会要求。因此,我们的研究结果突出了内化同性恋消极态度有害的关系后果,并为理解女同性恋者中特定的少数群体压力动态提供了相关的实证贡献。
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