@article{ref1,
title="The impact of community size on lesbian and bisexual women's psychosexual development: Child maltreatment, suicide attempts, and self-disclosure",
journal="Journal of psychology and human sexuality",
year="2004",
author="Mathy, R.M. and Schillace, M. and Carol, H.M.",
volume="15",
number="2-3",
pages="47-71",
abstract="We tested competing hypotheses about the impact of rural-urban gradients on sexual minorities with a public Internet chat room sample (n = 82) and a community-owned coffee house sample (n = 92). We found associations between rural-urban gradient and reports of paternal maltreatment as a child as well as self-disclosure of sexual orientation to a family member. In the coffee house sample, rural-urban gradient mediated the mean age at which participants self-disclosed their sexual orientation to another person, close friend, family member, and parent, though it was associated in the Internet sample only with disclosure of sexual orientation to a family member. Rural-urban gradient was not associated with suicidal intent or victimization. © 2003 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0890-7064",
doi="10.1300/J056v15n02_04",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J056v15n02_04"
}