Measuring Dimensions of Lesbian and Gay Male Experience

By Jonathan J Mohr, R. Fassinger. 2000

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Predictors of Identity Management (2017, background): “…uncertainty about one’s sexual orientation identity has been shown to be negatively associated with time in the LGB identity formation process, which may explain why it has also been linked with higher motivation to conceal and acceptance concerns (Mohr & Fassinger, 2000; Mohr & Kendra, 2011).”
Relationship Quality and Domestic Violence in Women's Same-Sex Relationships: The Role of Minority Stress (2005, methodology): “Participants’ degree of outness was assessed using the Outness Inventory (OI; Mohr & Fassinger, 2000), which consists of 10 items reflecting the degree to which individuals are open about their sexual orientation in three spheres of their lives—family, religion, and work.”
Between a Gay and a Straight Place: Bisexual Individuals’ Experiences with Monosexism (2015, background): “…to as ‘internalized binegativity,’ which relates to the unintentional agreement with negative and biased understandings about bisexuality, as well as the subsequent development of negative beliefs and feelings about one’s own bisexual orientation (Callis, 2013; Knous, 2006; Mohr & Fassinger, 2000).”
Coming Out as Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual: The Lasting Impact of Initial Disclosure Experiences (2015, background): “Rather, it is a process, which must be engaged whenever new situations or relationships are entered (Bohan, 1996; Mohr & Fassinger, 2000).”
Offsetting risks: High school gay-straight alliances and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. (2011, methodology): “The Outness Inventory (OI; Mohr & Fassinger, 2000) was administered to measure how open participants were about their sexual orientation with various individuals (e.g., parents, siblings, extended family members).”
Minority Stress and Psychological Distress Among Asian American Sexual Minority Persons 1Ψ7 (2010, methodology): “Validity was supported by demonstrating that sexual minority persons who identified strongly with the LGBTQ community and had higher scores on the final phase of lesbian or gay individual identity development had higher levels of outness (Mohr & Fassinger, 2000).”
Is Coming Out Always a “Good Thing”? Exploring the Relations of Autonomy Support, Outness, and Wellness for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals (2012, background): “…Morris et al., 2001), researchers are increasingly studying disclosure of sexual orientation in terms of outness level (Balsam & Mohr, 2007), a continuous variable with implicit and nondirect disclosure characterizing the middle of the continuum (e.g., Mohr & Fassinger, 2000; Savin-Williams, 1989).”
Navigating Sexual and Religious Identity Conflict: A Mormon Perspective (2015, background): “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Identity Scale The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Identity Scale (LGBIS; Mohr & Fassinger, 2000) is a 27-item measure assessing various dimensions of lesbian, gay, and bisexual identity including: internalized homonegativity, need for privacy or concealment, need for acceptance,…”
An organizing framework for collective identity: articulation and significance of multidimensionality. (2004, background): “Perceived certainty of self-identification Mohr & Fassinger (2000): Lesbian and Gay Identity Scale (Identity Confusion subscale) (Noel, Wann, & Branscombe, 1995).”
Relationship Satisfaction, Affectivity, and Gay-Specific Stressors in Same-Sex Couples Joined in Civil Unions (2005, methodology): “The degree to which participants had made their sexual identity known to others was assessed using the Outness Inventory (Mohr & Fassinger, 2000).”
What We Got Wrong About Sexual Identity Development: Unexpected Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Young Women. (2006, neutral): “For example, one of the items that Mohr and Fassinger (2000) used to measure identity synthesis among lesbians was "I am at the point where I feel a deep contentment about my love for other women."”
Attitudes Toward Bisexual Women and Men (2004, background): “Indeed, Mohr and Fassinger (2000b) have revised their Lesbian and Gay Identity Scale (2000a) to be inclusive of bisexual individuals, and preliminary data based on this measure suggests that bisexual individuals’ rejection of their own sexual orientation is linked to higher levels of distress…”
A Multifactor Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Positive Identity Measure (LGB-PIM) (2014, methodology): “For example, the dimensions of Mohr and Fassinger’s (2000) Lesbian and Gay Identity Scale (LGIS) reflected negative experiences and feelings about lesbian and gay identities. Other multidimensional measures of LGB identity have primarily focused on stressors associated with identity rather than dire”