Le Thomas P, Bradshaw Benjamin T, Wang Min Q, Boekeloo Bradley O
Department of Psychology, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Department of Behavioral and Community Health, School of Public Health, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Asian Am J Psychol. 2022 Jun;13(2):149-157. doi: 10.1037/aap0000231. Epub 2021 Jul 1.
While past research has examined the deleterious effects of racism on Asian Americans, fewer studies have investigated lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian Americans' unique experiences of oppression and unbelonging within the broader LGBT community. Guided by intersectionality and minority stress theoretical frameworks, the present study examined the effect of discomfort due to one's race/ethnicity within the LBGT community on psychological wellbeing in a national sample of 480 LGBT Asian Americans from the Social Justice Sexuality Project. The moderating role of how important one considered their race/ethnicity to their identity was also examined. Regression analyses revealed that greater discomfort due to one's race/ethnicity within the LGBT community was associated with reduced psychological wellbeing for LGBT Asian Americans who viewed their racial/ethnic identity as moderately or highly important, whereas this association was not significant for LGBT Asian Americans who considered their racial/ethnic identity as less important. These findings highlight the necessity of examining the role of racial/ethnic discomfort in relation to LGBT Asian Americans' psychological wellbeing, as well as the extent to which LGBT Asian Americans consider their race/ethnicity as important.
虽然过去的研究考察了种族主义对亚裔美国人的有害影响，但较少有研究调查女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别（LGBT）亚裔美国人在更广泛的LGBT社区中独特的压迫和归属感缺失经历。在交叉性和少数群体压力理论框架的指导下，本研究在一个来自社会正义性取向项目的480名LGBT亚裔美国人的全国样本中，考察了在LGBT社区中因种族/族裔而产生的不适感对心理健康的影响。同时也考察了一个人认为其种族/族裔对其身份认同有多重要的调节作用。回归分析显示，对于那些认为其种族/族裔身份为中等或高度重要的LGBT亚裔美国人来说，在LGBT社区中因种族/族裔而产生的不适感越强，其心理健康水平越低；而对于那些认为其种族/族裔身份不太重要的LGBT亚裔美国人来说，这种关联并不显著。这些发现凸显了考察种族/族裔不适感与LGBT亚裔美国人心理健康之间关系的必要性，以及LGBT亚裔美国人认为其种族/族裔有多重要的程度。
