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The Effects of Simultaneous Developmental Processes: Factors Relating to the Career Development of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth
Author(s) -
Schmidt Christa K.,
Nilsson Johanna E.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2006.tb00002.x
Subject(s) - lesbian , psychology , identity (music) , sexual identity , career development , assertion , maturity (psychological) , sexual minority , sexual orientation , homosexuality , social psychology , developmental psychology , gender studies , human sexuality , sociology , physics , computer science , acoustics , psychoanalysis , programming language
C. Hetherington (1991) hypothesized that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescents may experience a “bottleneck effect” in career development because of internal psychological energy focusing on issues surrounding sexual identity. This assertion has not yet been tested, however, in the career development literature. The authors examined the relationship between variables indicative of psychological resources being devoted to managing an LGB identity, social support, and career development. Survey data from 102 LGB youth demonstrated that inner sexual identity conflict and social support predicted unique and shared variance in career maturity and vocational indecision, lending empirical support to the bottleneck hypothesis.