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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Sexual minority stress"”.
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LGBT guilds as buffers against sexual minority stress
Minority stress theory posits that social connection to LGBT-affirming communities may buffer against the negative health effects of anti-LGBT stigma. Yet, few scholars have extended this scope of research to video games—a $90 billion industry touching nearly three-fourths of all U.S. households. …
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Race, Rejection Sensitivity, and Identity Centrality Among Young Sexual Minority Women
… study examined to what extent the centrality of sexual and racial/ethnic identities were associated with rejection sensitivity in young adult sexual minority women. The relationships between sexual identity centrality and current alcohol use, alcohol-related problems, and sexual minority stress …
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Clinically Assisted Reproduction Among Sexual Minority Women: Plans, Pivots, And Partnered-Decisions
Research focused on the efforts to conceive among sexual minority women (SMW) in same-sex couples has expanded in breadth and depth in recent decades. Yet, as consistent evidence of health disparities among SMW, along with sociopolitical and technological transformations that have changed notions …
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DSM-5 Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating Behaviors in the LGBT Population
<p>According to Meyer’s sexual minority stress model (2003), LGB individuals experience a higher prevalence of psychopathology, which is attributable to the increased stress (i.e., stigma and prejudice) adult sexual minority individuals experience. This model was later adapted by Hendricks and …
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Lesbian Couple Dynamics and Heterosexist Stressors: Building a Foundation for Culturally Competent Relationship Interventions
… to lesbian couples and related to heterosexist stressors as these factors may provide content areas for creating more culturally sensitive and affirming relationship programs. The heterosexist stressors analyzed included sexual minority stress--conceptualized to consist of outness, internalized …
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Examining levels of social support, concealment and disclosure and heterosexism as health indicators in sexual minority women who smoke
Recent evidence suggests self-identified sexual minority women (SMW) smoke at higher rates than gay men and heterosexual women. A limited amount of research for this disparity points to factors that include tobacco company targeted marketing, genetic differences, gender-based metabolic differences, …
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Rejected by the family for being lesbian and gay : exploring and testing factors that contribute to resilience
… ability to successfully cope with such a stressful event. Therefore, this research investigated factors that contributed to the resilience of gay men and lesbians who experience current family rejection. Interviews in the initial research phase explored factors that fostered or inhibited a …