Internalized Homophobia, Lesbian Identity Development, and Self-Esteem in Undergraduate Women

In the last two decades, there has been a growing interest in short versions of questionnaires for measuring several psychological constructs. Focusing on identity development, in the present study, we extracted and tested the psychometric properties of the EIPQ-SF, a short version of the EIPQ scale for measuring identity according to Marcia’s identity statuses (achieved, foreclosed, moratorium and diffused identity). The data of our study derived from a sample of 210 college students aged 18-25 years. For extracting the EIPQ-SF, we first tested the content of the items of the original EIPQ and then we performed exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. We evaluated the predictive validity of the EIPQ-SF by comparing the levels of self-esteem among participants with achieved, foreclosed, moratorium and diffused identity. The results of our study indicate that EIPQ-SF has a good factor structure and adequate validity and reliability; therefore, it can be used as a short scale for measuring identity in typical samples of young adults (university students). The advantages, applications as well as the limitations of the EIPQ-SF are thoroughly discussed.

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11. Internalized Homophobia and Gender-Valued Self-Esteem in the Psychoanalysis of Gay Patients

Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽

10.7312/frie12056-015 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 205-217

Keyword(s):

Internalized Homophobia ◽

Self Esteem ◽

And Gender

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Predicting College Women’s Body-Esteem and Self-Esteem Based on Rape Experience, Recency, and Labeling

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/1077801219845522 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (8) ◽

pp. 838-850

Author(s):

Suzanne L. Osman ◽

Carolyne Paige Merwin

Keyword(s):

Body Esteem ◽

Self Esteem ◽

The Body ◽

Lower Body ◽

Sexual Experiences ◽

The Past ◽

Undergraduate Women

We examined body-esteem and self-esteem based on rape experience, rape labeling status (yes; no) and recency of rape (recently, within past year; earlier, between age 14 and the past year). Undergraduate women ( n = 1,005) completed the Body-Esteem Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and Sexual Experiences Survey. Women raped within the past year (recently) reported lower levels of both body-esteem and self-esteem than those raped over a year ago (earlier) and nonvictims, but women raped earlier did not differ from nonvictims. Rape labeling status was not significant. Findings identify lower body-esteem, in addition to lower self-esteem, as correlates of recent rape.

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RACE AND COHORT DIFFERENCES IN LESBIAN IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT AND DRINKING

Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research ◽

10.1111/j.1530-0277.2004.tb03585.x ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 28 (8) ◽

pp. 1276-1276 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

C A. Parks ◽

T L. Hughes

Keyword(s):

Identity Development ◽

Lesbian Identity ◽

Cohort Differences

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The Development of Implicit Self-Esteem During Emerging Adulthood

Social Psychological and Personality Science ◽

10.1177/1948550617726831 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. 835-843 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Yuqi Wang ◽

Wei Wu ◽

Hairong Song ◽

Mingzheng Wu ◽

Huajian Cai

Keyword(s):

Identity Development ◽

Emerging Adulthood ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Rank Order ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

First Year ◽

Latent Growth ◽

First Order ◽

The University

Emerging adulthood is one of the most important life stages for self and identity development. The present research tracked the development of implicit self-esteem during emerging adulthood at both the group and individual levels. We used the implicit association test to assess implicit self-esteem with the improved D score as the index. We surveyed 327 students each year from the beginning of their first year of university until their graduation, with an extra assessment run in the middle of the first year. First-order autoregressive structural equation modeling indicated that implicit self-esteem remained quite stable during the university years in terms of rank-order stability. Latent growth modeling showed that implicit self-esteem decreased slightly during the university years with females initially manifesting a higher level. These findings enrich our understanding of implicit self-esteem and its development as well as self-construction during emerging adulthood.

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