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Personal constructs and homosexual stress

L M Leitner, S Cado

    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
    |October 1, 1982
    PubMed
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    This study developed a new way to measure homosexual stress using personal construct theory. Higher stress correlated with negative attitudes and the perception of homosexuality invalidating personal beliefs.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychology
    • Social Psychology

    Background:

    • Existing measures of homosexual stress lack directness and subtlety.
    • Personal construct theory offers a framework for understanding individual threat perception.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce and validate a personal construct theory-based measure for homosexual stress.
    • To explore the relationship between homosexual stress, attitudes, and personal construct invalidation.

    Main Methods:

    • A modified personal construct assessment, originally used for death threat, was administered to 40 undergraduate students (20 male, 20 female).
    • Participants completed measures assessing homosexual stress, attitudes toward homosexuality, and construct invalidation.

    Main Results:

    • Individuals reporting higher homosexual stress exhibited more negative attitudes toward homosexuality.

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  • The most negative attitudes were linked to perceiving homosexuality as invalidating core personal constructs.
  • Gender differences emerged: males experiencing more stress viewed homosexuality as personally meaningful, while females showed the opposite trend.
  • The homosexual stress measure was found to be independent of authoritarianism and weakly related to religious fundamentalism.

    • Conclusions:

    • The developed measure provides a novel and less obvious approach to assessing homosexual stress.
    • Understanding how individuals construe homosexuality is key to understanding their stress response.
    • The findings highlight the role of personal meaning and construct invalidation in homosexual stress, with notable gender variations.