Committee and liaison reports: Liaison to Division 44--Society for the psychological study of lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Pytluk
2021 ◽  
pp. 095679762110186
Author(s):  
Micah R. Lattanner ◽  
Jessie Ford ◽  
Na Bo ◽  
Wanzhu Tu ◽  
John E. Pachankis ◽  
...  

Psychological theories of identity concealment locate the ultimate source of concealment decisions within the social environment, yet most studies have not explicitly assessed stigmatizing environments beyond the immediate situation. We advanced the identity-concealment literature by objectively measuring structural forms of stigma related to sexual orientation (e.g., social policies) at proximal and distal geographic levels. We linked these measures to a new, population-based data set of 502 gay and bisexual men (residing in 44 states and Washington, DC; 269 counties; and 354 cities) who completed survey items about stigma, including identity-concealment motivation. Among gay men, the association between structural stigma and concealment motivation was (a) observed across three levels (city, county, and state), (b) conditional on one’s exposure at another geographic level (participants reported the least motivations to conceal their identity if they resided in both cities and states that were lowest in structural stigma), and (c) mediated by subjective perceptions of greater structural stigma.


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