Parental Acceptance and LGBT Community Connectedness as Predictors of Outness Among Filipino Queer Young Adults

Abstract

The study aims to investigate how parental acceptance and LGBT community connectedness predict the act of coming and being out, or outness, among Filipino queer adults. A sample of 74 Filipino people identifying as lesbian, gay, and bisexual, aged 23-40 years old, who are in a romantic relationship, and are in contact with both parents, were surveyed. Multilinear regression analysis was used to determine if parental acceptance and LGBT community connectedness predicted outness. We found that the regression model is significant (F[2.72] = 7.872, p < .001). Moreover, parental acceptance is a significant predictor of outness (β = 0.421; p <. 001) whereas LGBT community connectedness was found to not be (β = 0.053; p = 0.629). Therefore, it can be inferred that parental acceptance is more important on the outness of Filipino queer adults than LGBT community connectedness. Keywords: Parental acceptance, LGBT community, Outness, Filipino, Young adults