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Sex, status, competition, and exclusion

Intraminority stress from within the gay community and gay and bisexual men’s mental health

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ID6204865
AuthorsJohn E Pachankis (0000-0002-2015-9225, Yale University), Katherine Ann Clark (0000-0002-9626-8460, Yale University), Kirsty A Clark, Charles L Burton (0000-0003-3953-8468, Yale University), Jaclyn M White Hughto (0000-0003-4722-8179, John Brown University), Richard Bränström (0000-0002-5889-2481, Karolinska Institutet), Danya Keene (0000-0002-7612-8292, Yale University), Danya E Keene
Year2020
Volume119
Issue3
Pages713-740
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/pspp0000282
PMID31928026
OpenAlexW3000404880
LanguageEN
Citations received76
References cited55

252). Overall, these experiments provide partial support for the possibility that gay and bisexual men's status concerns underlie their experience of gay community stress. Together, these studies advance psychological and sociological accounts of gay and bisexual men's mental health beyond minority stress theory, with implications for intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

Developmental psychology · Feeling · Homosexuality · Lesbian · Mental health · Minority stress · Psychiatry · Sexual minority · Sexual orientation · Social exclusion · Social status · Social stress · Sociology · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Clinical Psychology · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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