Measuring a New Stress Domain: Validation of the Couple-Level Minority Stress Scale
| Autor: | Colleen C. Hoff, Torsten B. Neilands, Allen J. LeBlanc, Patrick S. Sullivan, Jason Chang, David M. Frost, Kayla Bowen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male 050103 clinical psychology medicine.medical_specialty Sexual Behavior Social Stigma Factor structure Article Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Social support Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Minority Groups General Psychology Social stress Family Characteristics 030505 public health Public health 05 social sciences Stressor Mental health Minority stress Sexual orientation Female 0305 other medical science Psychology Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Arch Sex Behav |
| ISSN: | 1573-2800 0004-0002 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10508-019-01487-y |
| Popis: | Existing social stress frameworks largely conceive of stress as emanating from individual experience. Recent theory and research concerning minority stress have focused on same-sex couples' experiences of both eventful and chronic stressors associated with being in a stigmatized relationship, including having ongoing or episodic fears of discrimination, and experiencing actual acts of discrimination. Such couple-level minority stressors represent a novel domain of social stress affecting minority populations that is only beginning to become a focus in empirical investigations testing minority stress theory. This article presents the results of psychometric analyses of dyadic data from 106 same-sex couples from across the U.S., introducing the Couple-Level Minority Stress (CLMS) scale featuring eight new couple-level minority stress factors: (1) Couple-Level Stigma; (2) Couple-Level Discrimination; (3) Seeking Safety as a Couple; (4) Perceived Unequal Relationship Recognition; (5) Couple-Level Visibility; (6) Managing Stereotypes about Same-Sex Couples; (7) Lack of Integration with Families of Origin; and (8) Lack of Social Support for Couples. The CLMS demonstrated a clear factor structure with satisfactory model-data fit and subscale reliabilities. The CLMS also exhibited validity as a correlate of one indicator of relationship quality (relationship satisfaction) and three indicators of mental health (nonspecific psychological distress, depressive symptomatology, and problematic drinking) when controlling for individual-level minority stressors and has great potential to extend and enrich minority stress research, particularly studies that deepen understandings of longstanding health inequities based on sexual orientation. |
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