Research Of Homosexual’s Coping Style And Social Avoidance And Distress

Homosexual exist in the society as a minority group, facing various pressures different from heterosexual caused by homosexual identity. And the coping style one choices affects one’s social avoidance and distress when facing the pressures.Through employing the qualitative research, this study explored the coping style and social avordance and distress when homosexual facing pressures. Through half-structured interviews with 43 homosexuals and arrangement of observation materials,62 elementary coda,24 category,8 subtitle and 3 main titles have been formed through repeated categorizing and analyzing.This study has deeply explored how the coping style homosexual choice effect their social avordance and distress follow 3 main titles. First of all, we discussed the attitude to homosexual identity which homosexual have; It maked us clear the special significance represented by this identity; Secondly, we analysised the different pressures between homosexual and heterosexual, it contains personal factors, family factors and social factors; Finally, we explored the influence which the different coping style effect on social avordance and distress when homosexual facing the pressures different from heterosexual.Through the questionnaire data analysis, we got three conclusions:The homosexual have to bear three aspects of special stress different from heterosexual attributed to their homosexual identity. It mainly refers to personal (self identification of homosexual identity, color image, health and emotional attribution),family (the attitude of the core members of the family, marital status), social nature (the order of law and ethics, the influence of small social groups). We extracted three main pressures: working pressure, marriage and family pressure and the pressure facing to the social. In the face of different stress situations, the homosexual will applicate different coping style, which mainly include positive style and negative style. The former performances as accept and face to the problems, seek foreign aid, optimism action, positive action, re- evaluate the stress situation, unbosom oneself, ask for social support and so on; The latter performances as escape from reality, attacks and acts, indulge in imagination and fantasy, self-accusation, guilty conscience, depress, Self-punishment and Substance abuse. Lesbian tend to chiose positive style then gay when they facing working srtess; But there are no significant difference between lesbian and gay in the other two cases. According to the analysis results, the positive coping styles contact closely to low-avoid social behaviors, and the negative ones always lead to the serious distress.