Your Client Is in the Process of Coming Out as Gay

question 21

Multiple Choice

Your client is in the process of coming out as gay. In your sessions, you find that he has an embedded belief that same-sex attraction is abnormal/wrong and that it is better to be heterosexual. As a result, he displays masochistic attitudes and behaviors. It is likely your client is experiencing internalized

• A) homophobia
• B) homophobia and heterosexism
• C) heterosexism
• D) transsexualism

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Definitions:

Row Variable

In the context of a data table or matrix, it refers to the variable represented by the rows, often used in cross-tabulation to compare against another variable.

Column Variable

A variable represented by a column in a dataset, where each entry in the column represents a value of the variable.

Degrees of Freedom

In statistics, it refers to the number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, less the number of parameters estimated.

Chi-Square

A statistical test used to assess the differences between categorically grouped data by comparing the observed frequencies of groups with expected frequencies derived from a hypothesis.