Parenthood is highly valued around the world. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, however, have faced a history of discrimination and challenges related to becoming parents (e.g., legal and/or practical barriers to adoption or biological parenthood). As such, LGBTQ+ youth may believe that certain pathways to parenthood (or parenthood itself) are unavailable to them. These feelings could prompt experiences of ambiguous loss related to a future idealized self. No quantitative research, however, has been conducted to capture these possible experiences; scale development is an important step to attempt to quantify them. Here, we report results from two studies using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to investigate the factor structure of a new scale reflecting conceptual future parent grief (CFPG) among LGBTQ+ individuals. Participants also responded to several measures to explore validity with the CFPG scale. Following model respecification, a 9-item one-factor solution resulted, reflecting ambiguous loss, complex grief, and sexual stigma-all of which could contribute to difficulties in reconciling one's LGBTQ+ and future parenthood identities. Significant associations with greater authenticity of LGBTQ+ identity, depressive symptoms, and sexual stigma provided evidence of convergent and divergent validity with the CFPG scale. Thus, ambiguous loss among LGBTQ+ people may connect to aspects of identity, mental health, and parenthood goals. Developing this scale represents a first step toward an assessment for LGBTQ+ individuals regarding future parenthood. Understanding more about CFPG among LGBTQ+ individuals could inform prevention efforts to reduce negative mental health symptoms and enhance positive LGBTQ+ identity development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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为LGBTQ +人群开发概念性未来父母悲伤（CFPG）量表。

父母身份在世界范围内受到高度重视。但是，女同性恋，男同性恋，双性恋，变性者和同性恋者（LGBTQ +）面临着歧视和与成为父母有关的挑战的历史（例如，法律和/或实际的收养或生父母身份方面的障碍）。因此，LGBTQ +青少年可能认为他们无法获得某些通往父母身份的途径（或父母本身）。这些感觉可能会导致与未来理想化的自我相关的模棱两可的损失经历。但是，尚未进行定量研究来捕捉这些可能的经验。规模发展是试图对其进行量化的重要一步。这里，我们使用探索性和确认性因子分析报告了两项研究的结果，以调查反映LGBTQ +个人之间概念性未来父母悲伤（CFPG）的新量表的因子结构。参与者还对几种措施进行了探讨，以探讨CFPG量表的有效性。重新指定模型后，得出了9项单因素解决方案，反映了模棱两可的损失，复杂的悲伤和性耻辱-所有这些都可能导致难以调和LGBTQ +和未来的父母身份。与LGBTQ +身份，抑郁症状和性耻辱具有更高真实性的显着关联提供了CFPG量表的收敛性和发散性证据。因此，LGBTQ +人群中的模棱两可损失可能与身份，心理健康和生育目标有关。制定此量表是朝着LGBTQ +个人评估未来父母身份迈出的第一步。对LGBTQ +个体中CFPG的更多了解可以为预防工作提供信息，以减少负面的心理健康症状并增强LGBTQ +的积极性。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。