Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexual Identity Attributions Toward Discrimination and Mental Health Across Three Cohorts of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults.

ABSTRACT: Discrimination is a risk factor for compromised mental health among sexually diverse people. However, few studies examine the implications of experiencing discrimination tied to multiple identities for sexually diverse adults' prospective mental health. This study takes an intersectional perspective to investigate how attributing discrimination to multiple identities is related to psychological distress over 2 years. Differences by age cohorts are also examined. Three intersectional hypotheses were tested: the additive hypothesis (i.e., multiple forms of discrimination incrementally worsen mental health), the inuring hypothesis (i.e., discrimination does not worsen mental health beyond one form), and the multiplicative hypothesis (e.g., experiencing two forms of discrimination worsen menta

SUBMITTER: Mallory AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12327760 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature