Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Date

2019

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Department

Counseling Psychology

Committee Chair

Suzanne Lease

Committee Member

Sara Bridges

Committee Member

Elin Ovrebo

Committee Member

Eraina Schauss

Abstract

Many lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals report experiencing heterosexism in the workplace, and previous literature has shown that heterosexist experiences at work are related to a plethora of negative work and career outcomes. The findings from the current study of 210 LGB-identified men and women investigated the impact of heterosexist experiences at work on subjective career success. Further, moderators of the relationship between heterosexist experiences at work and subjective career success, including coping self-efficacy, career adaptability, connectedness to the LGBT community, and outness at work were explored. Bisexual individuals experienced similar levels of heterosexist experiences at work as LG individuals, but had lower levels of subjective career success and outness at work. Coping self-efficacy was a significant moderator, but differed by sexual orientation such that it was a stronger moderator for lesbian and gay individuals. Implications of findings and limitations are discussed.

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Data is provided by the student.

Library Comment

Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to ProQuest

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