@article{ref1,
title="Psychosocial and behavioral correlates of internalized homonegativity in midlife and older gay and bisexual men",
journal="Journal of applied gerontology",
year="2020",
author="Jacobs, Robin J. and Kane, Michael and Sklar, Elliot M.",
volume="39",
number="5",
pages="527-535",
abstract="This study investigated psychosocial and demographic variables that might influence internalized homonegativity (IH) in midlife and older gay and bisexual men (GBM). Data were collected from 802 community-dwelling GBM aged 40 to 94 years (M = 54.8) through an anonymous questionnaire that assessed levels of IH, coping self-efficacy, self-silencing, and other characteristics. Multivariate logistic regression analysis successfully explained 22% of the variance in predicting IH, which was significantly related to coping self-efficacy, self-silencing, gay community volunteering, partnership status, and race, F = 59.74, p <.001. IH scores were highest in participants who were single, had lower education levels, were non-White, were less involved in gay community volunteering, experienced less coping self-efficacy, and reported higher levels of self-silencing behaviors. These data underscore the need for more tailored programming approaches for midlife and older GBM, focusing on underlying factors contributing to IH that include skill-building to increase coping self-efficacy, community involvement, and decrease self-silencing behaviors in this overlooked population.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0733-4648",
doi="10.1177/0733464819843057",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0733464819843057"
}