Couple-level Minority Stress: An Examination of Same-sex Couples' Unique Experiences.

ABSTRACT: Social stress resulting from stigma, prejudice, and discrimination-"minority stress"-negatively impacts sexual minority individuals' health and relational well-being. The present study examined how being in a same-sex couple can result in exposure to unique minority stressors not accounted for at the individual level. Relationship timeline interviews were conducted with 120 same-sex couples equally distributed across two study sites (Atlanta and San Francisco), gender (male and female), and relationship duration (at least six months but less than three years, at least three years but less than seven years, and seven or more years). Directed content analyses identified 17 unique couple-level minority stressors experienced within nine distinct social contexts. Analyses also revealed experien

SUBMITTER: Frost DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6625756 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature