父母面對同志子女出櫃挑戰與因應之研究

本研究以探討父母面對已出櫃同志子女的挑戰與因應策略，綜觀過去的研究，大多是以同志本身為主體所探討出櫃歷程，在父母的著墨上較為不足。因此本研究欲以同志父母為主體探究子女出櫃對父母帶來的影響，列出三項研究問題，分別為：一、父母在接收孩子出櫃後的心理狀態與影響有哪些；二、『出櫃』對親子關係帶來哪些影響；三、父母對於已出櫃子女的心理調適為何，以深入訪談的方式，邀請七位已經知情子女為同志身分的父母參與研究，運用紮根理論中的螺旋式分析方法來分析文本，以回應本研究的三項問題，研究結果分別為：一、父母對同志子女的無限擔心；二、子女出櫃作為父母認同同志子女的學習；三、出櫃過程中親子關係的變化：由負向轉為正向；四、『雙重出櫃』作為一種心理調適的策略。最後，本研究根據研究結果進行討論並提出建議，以提供同志父母、同志子女與相關助人工作者參考。

關鍵字

同志父母；出櫃；因應策略

並列摘要

This study explores the strategies of parents who experience LGBT children “coming-out”. Most of the past researches that related to LGBT coming-out experiences would set the LGBT children as the research object, rather than parents. Therefore, this study aims to explore the impact of children coming out on their parents. The three research questions: 1. Parent’s psychological state and other affects after knowing their children are out of the closet. 2. The impacts of “Out of the closet” on the parents-child relationship. 3.Parents how to adjust the children have been out of the closet. In an in-depth interviews, invite seven parents who have known their children are LGBT. In a way of in-depth interview, this study invited seven parents who have known their children to participate. In order to respond the three research questions, this study uses the Grounded Theory “spirial model” as the research method to analyze the texts. Results of the study show: 1. Parents infinitely worry about their LGBT children. 2. Children’s coming out is a chance and learning process for their parents to accept their children’s identity. 3. The relationship between parent and children changes from negative to positive during the coming out process. 4. "Double out" as a psychological adjustment strategy. Finally, based on the findings, the suggestions are offered to parents of LGBT children, LGBT children and help-relative workers.