Major Areas of Psychological Research
Major psychological research into homosexuality is divided into five categories:
- What causes some people to be attracted to their own sex?
- What causes discrimination against people with a homosexual orientation and how can this be influenced?
- Does having a homosexual orientation affect one's health status, psychological functioning or general well-being?
- What determines successful adaptation to rejecting social climates? Why is homosexuality central to the identity of some people, but peripheral to the identity of others?
- How do the children of homosexual people develop?
Psychological research in these areas has always been important to counteracting prejudicial attitudes and actions, and to the gay and lesbian rights movement generally.
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