Harassment Due to Gender Nonconformity Mediates the Association Between Sexual Minority Identity and Depressive Symptoms
| العنوان: | Harassment Due to Gender Nonconformity Mediates the Association Between Sexual Minority Identity and Depressive Symptoms |
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| المؤلفون: | Alexa Martin-Storey, Elana G. August |
| المصدر: | The Journal of Sex Research. 53:85-97 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Male, Nonconformity, Physical disability, Sociology and Political Science, Ethnic group, Identity (social science), Stigma (botany), 050109 social psychology, Developmental psychology, Gender Studies, Sexual and Gender Minorities, Young Adult, History and Philosophy of Science, Southwestern United States, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, General Psychology, Stereotyping, Depression, 05 social sciences, Sexual minority, Harassment, Female, Harassment, Non-Sexual, Lesbian, Psychology, Sexuality, 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| الوصف: | The visibility of a stigmatized identity is central in determining how individuals experience that identity. Sexual minority status (e.g., identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual) has traditionally been identified as a concealable stigma, compared with race/ethnicity or physical disability status. This conceptualization fails to recognize, however, the strong link between sexual minority status and a visible stigma: gender nonconformity. Gender nonconformity, or the perception that an individual fails to conform to gendered norms of behavior and appearance, is strongly stigmatized, and is popularly associated with sexual minority status. The hypothesis that harassment due to gender nonconformity mediates the association between sexual minority status and depressive symptoms was tested. Heterosexual and sexual minority-identified college and university students (N = 251) completed questionnaires regarding their sexual minority identity, experiences of harassment due to gender nonconformity, harassment due to sexual minority status, and depressive symptoms. A mediational model was supported, in which the association between sexual minority identity and depressive symptoms occurred via harassment due to gender nonconformity. Findings highlight harassment due to gender nonconformity as a possible mechanism for exploring variability in depressive symptoms among sexual minorities. |
| تدمد: | 1559-8519 0022-4499 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::c1315ac80f4310be88c0facdff4b2907 https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2014.980497 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....c1315ac80f4310be88c0facdff4b2907 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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