Measuring Adult Children’s Perceptions of Their Parents’ Acceptance and Rejection of Their Sexual Orientation: Initial Development of the Parental Acceptance and Rejection of Sexual Orientation Scale (PARSOS)

Ella Lubeznov Kibrik; Nitzan Cohen; Dana Stolowicz-Melman; Ayelet Levy; Rotem Boruchovitz-Zamir; Gary M. Diamond

doi:10.1080/00918369.2018.1503460

Measuring Adult Children’s Perceptions of Their Parents’ Acceptance and Rejection of Their Sexual Orientation: Initial Development of the Parental Acceptance and Rejection of Sexual Orientation Scale (PARSOS)

Ella Lubeznov Kibrik
, Nitzan Cohen
, Dana Stolowicz-Melman
, Ayelet Levy
, Rotem Boruchovitz-Zamir
, Gary M. Diamond

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Abstract

The Parental Acceptance and Rejection of Sexual Orientation Scale was administered to 256 self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer adults who had been out of the closet to their parents for at least 1 year. Principal component analysis revealed a clear two-component solution: parental acceptance and parental rejection. Findings showed that perceived maternal sexual orientation-specific acceptance was higher, and perceived maternal sexual orientation-specific rejection was lower, for gay/bisexual sons compared to their lesbian/bisexual daughters. Results of regression analyses suggest that both perceived sexual orientation specific acceptance and rejection predicted adult children’s psychological symptoms after accounting for perceived global parental acceptance and rejection and the child’s gender. The scale’s utility for research and practice are noted.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1513-1534
Number of pages	22
Journal	Journal of Homosexuality
Volume	66
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2018.1503460
State	Published - 19 Sep 2019
Externally published	Yes

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This work was supported from a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (214/16).

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Israel Science Foundation	214/16

Keywords

LGBT
parent rejection
parental acceptance
sexual orientaion

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Kibrik, E. L., Cohen, N., Stolowicz-Melman, D., Levy, A., Boruchovitz-Zamir, R., & Diamond, G. M. (2019). Measuring Adult Children’s Perceptions of Their Parents’ Acceptance and Rejection of Their Sexual Orientation: Initial Development of the Parental Acceptance and Rejection of Sexual Orientation Scale (PARSOS). Journal of Homosexuality, 66(11), 1513-1534. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2018.1503460

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Kibrik, EL, Cohen, N, Stolowicz-Melman, D, Levy, A, Boruchovitz-Zamir, R & Diamond, GM 2019, 'Measuring Adult Children’s Perceptions of Their Parents’ Acceptance and Rejection of Their Sexual Orientation: Initial Development of the Parental Acceptance and Rejection of Sexual Orientation Scale (PARSOS)', Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 1513-1534. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2018.1503460

Measuring Adult Children’s Perceptions of Their Parents’ Acceptance and Rejection of Their Sexual Orientation: Initial Development of the Parental Acceptance and Rejection of Sexual Orientation Scale (PARSOS). / Kibrik, Ella Lubeznov; Cohen, Nitzan; Stolowicz-Melman, Dana et al.
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Kibrik EL, Cohen N, Stolowicz-Melman D, Levy A, Boruchovitz-Zamir R, Diamond GM. Measuring Adult Children’s Perceptions of Their Parents’ Acceptance and Rejection of Their Sexual Orientation: Initial Development of the Parental Acceptance and Rejection of Sexual Orientation Scale (PARSOS). Journal of Homosexuality. 2019 Sep 19;66(11):1513-1534. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2018.1503460

Measuring Adult Children’s Perceptions of Their Parents’ Acceptance and Rejection of Their Sexual Orientation: Initial Development of the Parental Acceptance and Rejection of Sexual Orientation Scale (PARSOS)

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