The best little <i>kid</i> in the world: Internalized sexual stigma and extrinsic contingencies of self‐worth, work values, and life aspirations among men <i>and</i> women

Blankenship, Benjamin T.; Stewart, Abigail J.

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“…The first empirical evidence for “The Best Little Boy in the World” hypothesis, which suggests that young sexual minority men cope with stigma by strongly investing in achievement‐related success, was brought by Pachankis and Hatzenbuehler in 2013. In this special issue, Blankenship and Stewart (2022) extended this work by testing whether this hypothesis equally applies to both sexual minority men and women, and other domains of success. Across two studies using correlational methods ( Ntot = 412), they tested this idea in domains of academic‐related contingencies of self‐worth (Study 1) and extrinsic life aspirations and occupational values (Study 2) with both college students and an MTurk sample.…”

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Advancing research into the social psychology of sexual orientations and gender identities: Current research and future directions

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2022

Euro J Social Psych

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Over the past decades, LGBTQ+ issues have been at the centre of politics, social movements, and human rights discussions across the world. Consistent with these developments, there is a growing interest in social psychological research into sexual orientation and gender identities. The emerging research not only taps recent societal developments and the effects of these on LGBTQ+ people; but also focuses on very old research questions of stereotypes and prejudice that are still relevant today. In this special issue, we bring together nine papers addressing several of these issues using qualitative, correlational, and experimental methods with sexual majority and minority samples across different cultural contexts. We discuss the current state of the field and how further research could enhance our understanding of LGBTQ+ issues. INTRODUCTIONOver the past decades, LGBTQ+ issues have been at the centre of politics, social movements, and human rights discussions, and the site of major transformation across the world. It is not surprising, therefore, that LGBTQ+ people, the social processes that surround them, and the contexts in which they live, are becoming more and more the focus of interest for psychological study (Hegarty & Rutherford; 2019; Nadal, 2019; Salvati et al., 2020). On the one hand, improvements to specific rights, such as same sex marriage legalization in the US, Taiwan, Australia, and Northern Ireland, have been linked to more positive LGBTQ+ attitudes in society and favourable outcomes for the well-being in LGBTQ+ communities. On the other hand, the same progressive trends have elicited backlashes in various contexts. For instance, many areas in Poland have been declared LGBTQ+-free zones; trans-people are no longer allowed to change their names or gender markers in official documents in Bulgaria; pride marches were banned in Georgia and Turkey; transgender people were banned from serving in the military in the US. Social change and resistance inevitably co-occur. The last report on State-Sponsored Homophobia, published by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) in 2020, pointed to the following worrying data: 36% of United Nations (UN) Member States criminalize or de facto criminalize consensual same-sex sexual acts (59% of African and 52% of Asian UN Member States); 22% of UN Member States have laws and regulations that restrict freedom of expression in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity, including criminalizing offences against morality and religion, limiting sex education curricula, prohibiting promotion or propaganda of homosexuality, censorship in media and movies, and so on (37% of African and 40% of Asian UN Member States); only 30% of UN Member States have broad legal protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation, but the high percentage is concentrated in Europe (68%); and finally, only 18% of UN Member States recognize legal equality of relationships for two people of the same gender and/or have extended the definiti...

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Section: What We Still Need To Know: the Contributions Of This Specia...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Advancing research into the social psychology of sexual orientations and gender identities: Current research and future directions

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2022

Euro J Social Psych

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The best little kid in the world: Internalized sexual stigma and extrinsic contingencies of self‐worth, work values, and life aspirations among men and women

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Advancing research into the social psychology of sexual orientations and gender identities: Current research and future directions

Advancing research into the social psychology of sexual orientations and gender identities: Current research and future directions

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