Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health.
Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2020 Sep;119(3):713-740. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000282. Epub 2020 Jan 13.
Gay and bisexual men might face unique, status-based competitive pressures given that their social and sexual relationships often occur with other men, who are known to compete for social and sexual gain. In a multistage study, we delineated intraminority gay community stress theory-that status-focused elements of the gay community challenge the mental health of gay and bisexual men. We first created a measure of gay community stress with items derived from qualitative interviewing ( = 49); calculated its psychometric properties, including 1-year temporal stability ( = 937); and confirmed its structural stability in distinct samples ( = 96; = 1,413). Being stressed by perceiving the gay community's focus on sex, focus on status, focus on competition, and exclusion of diversity predicted gay and bisexual men's mental health over-and-above a comprehensive battery of traditional minority stressors (β = .17, < .01) and mediated the association between one's gay community status and mental health. To examine the impact of individual differences in status concerns (i.e., about masculinity, attractiveness, and wealth) on gay and bisexual men's feelings of within-community exclusion, a series of experiments manipulated (a) the sexual orientation (gay vs. heterosexual) of rejecters ( = 103), (b) the social status of gay rejecters ( = 83), and (c) whether rejection from gay and bisexual rejecters was status-based or nonstatus-based ( = 252). Overall, these experiments provide partial support for the possibility that gay and bisexual men's status concerns underlie their experience of gay community stress. Together, these studies advance psychological and sociological accounts of gay and bisexual men's mental health beyond minority stress theory, with implications for intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
男同性恋和双性恋者可能面临独特的、基于地位的竞争压力，因为他们的社交和性关系往往发生在其他男性之间，而众所周知，这些男性为了获得社交和性方面的好处而相互竞争。在一项多阶段研究中，我们阐述了少数群体内部男同性恋社区压力理论，即同性恋社区中以地位为重点的元素对男同性恋和双性恋者的心理健康构成挑战。我们首先用从定性访谈中得出的项目创建了一个男同性恋社区压力量表（ = 49）；计算了其心理测量学特性，包括 1 年的时间稳定性（ = 937）；并在不同的样本中确认了其结构稳定性（ = 96； = 1,413）。感知同性恋社区对性的关注、对地位的关注、对竞争的关注以及对多样性的排斥会导致同性恋和双性恋者的心理健康问题，这一预测超过了一整套传统的少数群体压力源（β=.17， <.01），并介导了一个人所处的同性恋社区地位与心理健康之间的关联。为了检验对地位的关注（即对男子气概、吸引力和财富的关注）对男同性恋和双性恋者在社区内被排斥感的个体差异的影响，一系列实验操纵了（a）拒绝者的性取向（同性恋者与异性恋者）（ = 103），（b）同性恋拒绝者的社会地位（ = 83），以及（c）同性恋和双性恋拒绝者的拒绝是否基于地位（ = 252）。总的来说，这些实验为这样一种可能性提供了部分支持，即男同性恋和双性恋者对地位的关注是他们体验同性恋社区压力的基础。这些研究共同推进了对男同性恋和双性恋者心理健康的心理学和社会学解释，超越了少数群体压力理论，对干预措施具有启示意义。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。
