Minority Stressors, Rumination, and Psychological Distress in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals.

ABSTRACT: This study tested the mechanisms by which social stigma contributes to psychological distress in lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. A large community sample (N?=?4248, M age?=?29.9 years, 42.9% female, 57.1% male, 35.7% bisexual, 64.3% lesbian/gay, 9.9% non-white) was recruited using targeted and general advertisements for an online cross-sectional survey. Participants completed measures of childhood gender nonconformity, prejudice events, victimization, microaggressions, sexual orientation concealment, sexual orientation disclosure, expectations of rejection, self-stigma, rumination, and distress. Structural equation modeling was used to test the relationships between these variables in a model based upon minority stress theory and the integrative mediation framework with childhood gender nonconformity as the initial independent variable and distress (depression, anxiety, and well-being) as the final dependent variable. The results broadly support the hypothesized model. The final model had good fit ?2(37)?=?440.99, p?

SUBMITTER: Timmins L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7031186 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature