Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 May 21;21(6):655. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21060655.
As has been widely documented, minority stress affects the psychosocial well-being of gay and lesbian people. Recently, researchers have turned their attention to psychological factors that may influence the level of minority stress experienced, in order to explain individual differences in perceptions of proximal minority stressors. The present research aimed at assessing the effect of attachment avoidance and anxiety on levels of perceived stigma and internalized homonegativity. A total of 163 participants who self-identified as lesbian or gay ( = 32.56, = 10.87) were recruited and responded to the self-report questionnaires. Two multiple regression models were applied to assess the association between adult attachment and perceived stigma and internalized homonegativity. Results showed a positive association between attachment anxiety and avoidance and internalized homonegativity, as well as between attachment avoidance and perceived stigma. The emerging results demonstrate the impact of attachment anxiety and avoidance on proximal minority stressors and provide useful data for interventions addressing lesbian and gay people aimed at promoting security-based strategies of affect regulation and positive representations of self and others, which in turn may reduce the level of proximal minority stressors experienced and promote psychosocial well-being.
正如广泛记录的那样，少数民族压力会影响同性恋者和双性恋者的社会心理健康。最近，研究人员将注意力转向可能影响少数民族压力感知水平的心理因素，以解释对近端少数民族压力源的感知差异。本研究旨在评估依恋回避和焦虑对感知污名和内化同性恋消极态度的影响。共有 163 名自认为是女同性恋或男同性恋的参与者（ = 32.56， = 10.87）被招募并回答了自我报告问卷。应用两个多元回归模型来评估成人依恋与感知污名和内化同性恋消极态度之间的关联。结果表明，依恋焦虑和回避与内化同性恋消极态度之间，以及依恋回避与感知污名之间呈正相关。这些新出现的结果表明，依恋焦虑和回避对近端少数民族压力源有影响，并为干预措施提供了有用的数据，这些干预措施旨在促进基于安全的情感调节策略和自我和他人的积极表现，这反过来又可能降低所经历的近端少数民族压力源的水平，并促进社会心理健康。
