Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy, University of Connecticut, Connecticut, USA.
Department of Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA.
J Homosex. 2024 Apr 15;71(5):1201-1230. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2023.2169087. Epub 2023 Jan 30.
Sexual minority individuals often have complicated relationships with conservative religion, including conflicts between their sexual and religious identities. Sexual minority members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (CJCLDS) experience unique struggles, given the policies and doctrine of the CJCLDS and its commitment to heteronormative family structures and gender roles. A better understanding of the identity development trajectory for sexual minority individuals formerly involved in the church can deepens our understanding of sexual identity development in constrained contexts and help promote successful identity integration within this subpopulation. Transcripts from semi-structured interviews with thirty-four sexual minority individuals who identified as former members of the CJCLDS were analyzed using an inductive thematic approach, followed by a deductive theory-building process in which Cass's Homosexual Identity Formation Model and Genia's Religious Identity Development Model were overlaid on themes. We present a model that captures the trajectory of sexual and religious identity development that captures the experiences of sexual minority adults within the constraints of the CJCLDS, a non-affirming religious denomination.
性少数群体个体与保守宗教的关系常常很复杂，包括他们的性身份和宗教身份之间的冲突。鉴于耶稣基督后期圣徒教会 (CJCLDS) 的政策和教义，以及其对异性恋规范家庭结构和性别角色的承诺，CJCLDS 的性少数成员会经历独特的挣扎。深入了解以前参与过该教会的性少数群体个体的身份发展轨迹，可以加深我们对受限环境下性身份发展的理解，并有助于促进该群体内成功的身份融合。对 34 名性少数群体个体的半结构化访谈记录进行了分析，使用了一种归纳主题方法，然后进行了演绎理论构建过程，其中包括 Cass 的同性恋身份形成模型和 Genia 的宗教身份发展模型。我们提出了一个模型，该模型捕捉了性和宗教身份发展的轨迹，捕捉了非认可宗教教派 CJCLDS 中性少数成年个体的经历。
