Does Internalized Heterosexism Moderate the Link Between Heterosexist Events and Lesbians' Psychological Distress?

By Dawn M. Szymanski. 2006

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Experiences of Sexual Objectification, Minority Stress, and Disordered Eating Among Sexual Minority Women (2015, methodology): “…unique stressors as a result of their stigmatized sexual identity (e.g., real or perceived harassment, expectations of rejection, internalized heterosexism, and identity concealment), which may ultimately relate to higher levels of psychological disturbance (Meyer, 1995, 2003; Szymanski, 2006).”
Internalized Heterosexism (2008, background): “Building on a theoretical model proposed by Chung and Katayama (1998), Chung and Szymanski (2006) hypothesized that Asian gay men’s IH would differ among marginalists (those holding negative attitudes toward one’s own ethnic group and toward the dominant cultural group), separationists (those…”
Minority Stress and Psychological Distress Among Asian American Sexual Minority Persons 1Ψ7 (2010, methodology): “Findings from a qualitative study of 10 Asian gay men reveal that many of the participants perceived their Asian families to be conservative and had difficulty coming out to their families as LGBTQ because of their Asian background (Chung & Szymanski, 2006).”
Multiple Oppressions and the Mental Health of Sexual Minority Latina/o Individuals (2015, methodology): “…the Heterosexist discrimination × Internalized heterosexism minority stress interaction—which has received mixed support in prior research with predominately European American sexual minority individuals (Meyer, 1995; Szymanski, 2006; Velez et al., 2013)—was nonsignificant in the current sample.”
Group-Level Coping as a Moderator Between Heterosexism and Sexism and Psychological Distress in Sexual Minority Women (2009, methodology): “…by significant positive correlations with measures assessing depression, anxiety, interpersonal sensitivity, somatization, obsessive compulsiveness, and overall psychological distress and by demonstrating that the HHRDS was conceptually distinct from internalized heterosexism (Szymanski, 2006).”
Minority Stressors and Psychological Distress in Transgender Individuals (2017, unknown): “Anti-LGBT prejudice events were measured using a version of the Heterosexist Harassment, Rejection, and Discrimination Scale (HHRDS; Szymanski, 2006), modified to be applicable to LGBT individuals as whole.”
Resilience and collective action: Exploring buffers against minority stress for transgender individuals. (2015, unknown): “Cronbach's alpha for HHRDS items was .91 with gay and bisexual men (Szymanski, 2009), .90 with lesbian women (Szymanski, 2006), and .92 with a primarily White American sample of 564 LGB-identified persons (Denton, Rostosky, & Danner, 2014).”
The Impact of Minority Stress on Mental Health and Substance Use Among Sexual Minority Women (2011, background): “Heterosexist Harassment, Rejection, and Discrimination Scale: The Heterosexist Harassment, Rejection, and Discrimination Scale (HHRD; Szymanski, 2006) consists of 14 items reflecting the frequency with which LGBs report having experienced discrimination because they are LGB in the past year.”
Internalized Heterosexism (2008, unknown): “Only a handful of studies (i.e., Chung & Szymanski, 2006; From, 2000; Piggot, 2004; Szymanski, 2005b) have begun to explore the relationships among various forms of oppression experienced by LGB persons with multiple minority statuses and their influence on psychosocial health.”