Psychological Counseling and Guidance, MEF University.
Counseling & Human Services, Old Dominion University.
J Couns Psychol. 2018 Apr;65(3):372-382. doi: 10.1037/cou0000261.
Research on the well-being of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people has predominately focused on Western (-ized) societies where individualism, and not collectivism, is emphasized. In the present study, we utilized a mediator model via Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to examine the relationships between self-compassion (i.e., self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness), perceived social support (i.e., family, friends, and significant others), and subjective well-being (i.e., life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect) in a sample of LGB-identified individuals living in Turkey, a traditionally collectivistic culture (Hofstede, 2001). A sample of 291 LGB individuals (67 lesbian, 128 gay, and 96 bisexual) completed an online survey including the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Satisfaction with Life Scale, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support Scale, and Self-kindness, Common Humanity, and Mindfulness subscales of the Self-Compassion Scale. The results of SEM for the hypothesized mediator model revealed that self-compassion mediated the relationships between perceived social support from family and significant others and subjective well-being, explaining the 77% of the variance in subjective well-being. Implications for the literature base on LGB well-being are discussed, with a focus on the cross-cultural applications. (PsycINFO Database Record
对女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋（LGB）人群幸福感的研究主要集中在强调个人主义而非集体主义的西方（西方化）社会。在本研究中，我们通过结构方程建模（SEM）利用中介模型来检验自我同情（即自我友善、共同人性和正念）、感知社会支持（即家庭、朋友和重要他人）与主观幸福感（即生活满意度、积极情绪和消极情绪）之间的关系，研究对象是生活在土耳其的 LGB 身份个体，土耳其是一个传统的集体主义文化（Hofstede，2001）。一个由 291 名 LGB 个体（67 名女同性恋、128 名男同性恋和 96 名双性恋）组成的样本完成了一项在线调查，包括积极和消极情绪量表、生活满意度量表、多维感知社会支持量表以及自我同情量表的自我友善、共同人性和正念分量表。假设中介模型的 SEM 结果表明，自我同情中介了来自家庭和重要他人的感知社会支持与主观幸福感之间的关系，解释了主观幸福感 77%的变异。讨论了 LGB 幸福感文献基础的意义，重点是跨文化应用。
