Development and Initial Validation of Scales for Coming Out Vigilance and Positive Coming Out Responses

Skidmore, Samuel J.; Lefevor, G. Tyler; Huynh, Kiet D.; Berg, Connor O.

doi:10.1007/s12119-023-10144-5

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“…Understanding one’s pattern of sexual attraction, making meaning of how one’s attractions relate to one’s sexual behavior, and finding a consistent way to describe it to others (i.e., sexual identity development) are often lengthy and challenging processes for SMs (Skidmore, Lefevor, Huynh, & Berg, 2023). The process may be particularly lengthy and challenging for religious SMs (Dehlin et al, 2014) as religious SMs often face additional difficulties in understanding their sexual attractions, finding the optimal way to express those attractions, and selecting appropriate labels for their sexual attractions and behavior (Lewis et al, 2003; Lefevor, Sorrell, et al, 2020).…”

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Establishing the temporal relationship between religious commitment, sexual identity struggles, and religious struggles among sexual minorities.

Lefevor,

Skidmore

2024

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Conclusions about the temporal relationship between religiousness and both religious and sexual identity struggles are frequently made in the absence of longitudinal data. The present study examines the temporal relationship between religious identification, sexual identity struggles, and religious struggles. Participants were 132 Latter-day Saint sexual minorities who provided data at two timepoints, 2 years apart. We employed two cross-lagged panel models, one focusing on religious struggles and religious commitment and the other focusing on sexual identity struggles and religious commitment, to understand the temporal relationships between these variables. Cross-lagged panel models suggested that interpersonal religious struggles and sexual identity uncertainty at Time 1 were negatively related to religious commitment at Time 2. Similarly, religious commitment at Time 1 was related to decreased sexual identity affirmation and increased religious doubt at Time 2. Although there is some degree of reciprocity to the relationship between religious/sexual identity struggles and religious commitment, certain struggles (interpersonal religious struggles, identity uncertainty) predicted later decreases in religious commitment, and religious commitment predicted an increase in certain types of struggles (religious doubt, lack of sexual identity affirmation).

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