Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youths Coming Out to Their Parents: Parental Reactions and Youths’ Outcomes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examines the contribution of parental reactions to their child's identity development and psychological adjustment following their child's coming out as gay, lesbian, or bisexual (GLB). Interviews on parental reactions were administered to 53 parents, and questionnaires on identity and adjustment were administered to their 53 GLB youths. Parental interviews were coded using 10 positive and negative dimensions of parental reactions. There were no gender differences in levels of positive and negative parental reactions and in levels of GLB youths’ outcomes. However, as expected, parents’ support of their child's sexual orientation, parents’ attempts to control their child's sexual orientation, and parents’ struggles with their child's sexual orientation were significantly associated with dimensions of youths’ identity and psychological adjustment. Parents’ gender also moderated the strength of the associations between parental reactions and youths’ outcomes. This study is of clinical relevance for intervention regarding sexually diverse populations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".