Asian Cultural Values, Internalized Heterosexism, and Sexual Orientation Disclosure Among Asian American Sexual Minority Persons

Navigating double marginalisation: migrant Chinese sexual and gender minority young people’s views on mental health challenges and supports

“…Recent studies in the USA and UK indicate that double minority youth can develop coping strategies for resiliency in the face of double marginalisation (Li et al 2017; Rios and Eaton 2016;Jaspal and Williamson 2017). These strategies include skills in identity management, whereby double minority youth learn to selectively prioritise aspects of their identity that are less stigmatised and seen as appropriate to the given social context (Wang, Bih and Brennan 2009;Szymanski and Sung 2013;Jaspal and a The term sexual and gender minority refers to all gender diverse people who are not cisgender (i.e. a cisgender person is someone whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth) and all those people who are not heterosexual, as well as those that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) (Mayer et al 2008).…”

Being a “Nǚ Tóngzhì” in the United States

“…However, the reported reasons for Taiwanese nǚ tóngzhì's decrease in disclosure did not seem to reflect internalized heterosexism. This is inconsistent with the previous research finding of Asian American sexual minority's internalized heterosexism found as a result of adherence to Asian cultural values, can lead to identity concealment (Szymanski & Sung, 2013). Rather, Taiwanese nǚ tóngzhì in this study utilized their autonomy and personal agency to conceal their sexual orientation as a coping strategy that was fitting for their cultural contexts and relationships.…”

“…And such studies reported the understanding of one's self identity in Asian American/Asian international population is more complicated than the existing models described. Szymanski and Sung (2013) explored the connection between Asian cultural value adherence, internalized heterosexism, and disclosure of sexual identity. And they found that Asian American/Asian persons' level of adherence to Asian cultural values was positively related to internalized heterosexism and negative related to disclosure of sexual identity.…”

Sexual self-disclosure, internalized homophobia and depression symptoms among sexual minority women in Vietnam

“…Self-disclosure indicates the level of sexual disclosure of a person to others with consideration of potential consequences ( Szymanski and Sung, 2013 ; Van Dam, 2014 ). There were many scales to assess the level of sexual self-disclosure such as Outness Inventory ( Mohr and Fassinger, 2000 ), the Outness scale from the National Lesbian Health Care Survey ( Morris et al, 2001 ), Self-Concealment Scale ( Schrimshaw et al, 2013 ) and so on.…”