Cultural Value Orientations, Internalized Homophobia, and Accommodation in Romantic Relationships

@article{Gaines2005CulturalVO,
  title={Cultural Value Orientations, Internalized Homophobia, and Accommodation in Romantic Relationships},
  author={Stanley O. Gaines and Michael C. Henderson and Mary Kim and Samuel C. Gilstrap and Jennifer Yi and C. Rusbult and Deletha P. Hardin and Lowell Gaertner},
  journal={Journal of Homosexuality},
  year={2005},
  volume={50},
  pages={117 - 97}
}
Abstract In the present study, we examined the impact of cultural value orientations (i.e., the personally oriented value of individualism, and the socially oriented values of collectivism, familism, romanticism, and spiritualism) on accommodation (i.e., voice and loyalty, rather than exit and neglect, responses to partners' anger or criticism) in heterosexual and gay relationships; and we examined the impact of internalized homophobia (i.e., attitudes toward self, other, and disclosure) on… 
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