| Summary: | 碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 應用心理學系碩士班 === 105 === Relationships among Life Attitude, Positivity and the Gay Identity
This study is aimed to investigate the relationships of gay’s positive emotion and life attitude toward gay identity. A web survey approach was adopted in this study to collect researching data from gays in Taiwan, and 490 valid samples were collected.
The instruments used in this study were ‘Gay Identity Scale’, ‘Short-Form Life Attitude Scale’, and ‘Positive Emotion Scale’. The descriptive statistics, the independent sample T test, and the Pearson product-moment correlation were employed in this research to analyze the collected data.
The research findings could be summarized as the following points stated: first, there was a tendency of gay identity inclined to ‘identity assumption’, and ‘commitment’; second, the overall performance of life attitude of gay and the positive emotion were fair; third, the proportion of gay’s positivity was close to one to one; fourth, the ‘sensitization’ in the gay identity phase was correlated with ‘life attitude’; fifth, the ‘identity assumption’, ‘commitment’, and ‘life attitude’ indicated that they were correlated in the gay identity phase; sixth, the ‘identity confusion’, ‘identity assumption’, ‘commitment’, and ‘positive emotion’ were correlated in the gay identity phase; seventh, the ‘life attitude’ and ‘positive emotion’ were correlated in the four phases of gay identity; eighth, gays with ‘high positive emotion’ performed much better than those gays with ‘low positive emotion’.
Keywords: gay, gay identity, positive emotion, life attitude
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