Impact of Identity Acceptance on Psychological Well-Being among LGBT community

Abstract

Sex and sexuality are two different terms; Sex is referred to biologically assigned role whereas sexuality is individual’s emotional and sexual expression towards oneself and romantic relations, which can be divided into heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, etc. Due to poor social acceptance and taboo towards homosexual orientation leads to identity crisis, which makes an individual emotionally vulnerable. Objective: The purpose of this research was to see the impact of identity acceptance on psychological well-being among LGBT community. A sample of 240 people from LGBT community were taken by using purposive sampling method. Psychological well-being Scale developed by Bhogale and Prakash (1995) was used as tool in this research for the data collection and 4*2 ANOVA was applied for statistical analysis. Results revealed that, there is significant difference in psychological well-being within LGBT community based on the reference to their level of identity acceptance.