Prejudice and Discrimination as Social Stressors

By I. Meyer. 2007

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Scrutinized but not recognized: (In)visibility and hypervisibility experiences of faculty of color (2019, background): “Identity-based stressors may cause additional distress because they challenge individuals' sense of self and require that they make decisions regarding the concealment or expression of identities (Meyer, 2007).”
Effects of Family and Friend Support on LGB Youths' Mental Health and Sexual Orientation Milestones. (2011, methodology): “It is also based on minority stress theory and research, which point to the detrimental effects of expectations of negative events or responses on the mental health of sexual minorities (Meyer, 2007).”
Narrative, Identity, and the Politics of Exclusion: Social Change and the Gay and Lesbian Life Course (2011, result): “While antigay prejudice remains a serious social problem, there is some evidence that young adults in the present generation experience greater acceptance and lessened stigma compared with earlier cohorts of lesbians and gay men (Herek et al. 2007; Meyer 2003, 2007; Smith 2005).”
A Multifactor Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Positive Identity Measure (LGB-PIM) (2014, unknown): “81) and validity through correlations with self-esteem and same-group orientation was demonstrated in Mohr and Fassinger (2000). In the current sample, coefficient alpha for the subscales were: Need for Acceptance, .”
Managing uncertainty: a grounded theory of stigma in transgender health care encounters. (2013, background): “A growing body of literature supports stigma and discrimination as fundamental causes of health disparities (Krieger, 1999, 2012; Link & Phelan, 1995; Meyer & Northridge, 2007).”
Minority Stress and Physical Health Among Sexual Minorities (2013, background): “In line with our proposal, LGB individuals frequently experience discrete acts of prejudice and discrimination (Katz-Wise & Hyde, 2012), and these experiences are associated with psychological distress (Mays & Cochran, 2001; Meyer, 1995, 2003, 2007).”
Marriage Amendments and Psychological Distress in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) Adults (2009, background): “Other potentially important mediating variables for future examination include group consciousness, group affiliation, and individual commitment to gay identity (Meyer, 2007).”
Mental Health of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth and Young Adults: Differential Effects of Age, Gender, Religiosity, and Sexual Orientation (2012, background): “Minority stress theory also maintains that the impact of the stressors may be alleviated by the coping resources available to the LGB individual, and intensified by what it terms the “added burden” of a disadvantaged social status on top of their sexual-minority identity (Meyer, 2003, 2007).”