Mediators of the Relationship Between Internalized Oppressions and Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Psychological Distress

By Dawn M. Szymanski, Susan Kashubeck‐West. 2008

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Exploring Sexual Minority Women’s Experiences of External and Internalized Heterosexism and Sexism and their Links to Coping and Distress (2014, methodology): “Validity of scores was supported by correlating the Internalized Homophobia Scale with other internalized heterosexism scales, measures assessing selfesteem, depression, connection with and feelings toward the lesbian, gay, and bisexual community, degree of outness, and perceived stigma related to b”
Internalized Heterosexism (2008, unknown): “In light of such gender differences, Szymanski and Kashubeck-West (2008) investigate how IH, along with other variables, may predict psychological distress for sexual minority women, and Kashubeck-West and Szymanski (2008) examine how IH along with other variables may predict risky sexual behavior…”
Social stigma and its consequences for the socially stigmatized. (2011, background): “…homophobia for sexual minorities (Frost & Meyer, 2009; Russell & Bohan, 2006), internalized racism (Wester et al., 2006) or racialized self-hatred (Cross, 1991) for racial ⁄ethnic minorities, and internalized sexism for women (Bearman, Korobov, & Thorne, 2009; Szymanski & Kashubeck-West, 2008).”
Internalized Stigma Within Sexual and Gender Minorities: Change Strategies and Clinical Implications (2015, background): “Previous work has shown that decreased social supports are one way that internalized heterosexism affects psychological distress in sexual minorities (Lehavot & Simoni, 2011; Szymanski & Kashubeck-West, 2008).”
Multiple Oppressions and the Mental Health of Sexual Minority Latina/o Individuals (2015, background): “Similarly, in a sample of predominantly European American sexual minority women (N = 304), the Internalized sexism × Internalized heterosexism interaction was not significant in relation to psychological distress (Szymanski & Kashubeck-West, 2008).”
Minority Stress and Psychological Distress Among Asian American Sexual Minority Persons 1Ψ7 (2010, methodology): “For example, reported alpha for scores on the IHP short form with a female bisexual sample was .80 (Szymanski & Kashubeck-West, 2008) and with a gay and bisexual male sample was .88 (Kashubeck-West & Szymanski, 2008).”
Racism and Sexism as Correlates of African American Women’s Psychological Distress (2010, background): “This finding is also consistent with other research on the multiple oppressionsdistress links that has not supported the interactionist perspective among independent samples of racial/ethnic sexual minority persons (Szymanski and Gupta 2009a, b; Szymanski and Meyer 2008), and predominately White les”
Internalized Racism: A Systematic Review of the Psychological Literature on Racism's Most Insidious Consequence (2019, background): “Several studies (e.g., Szymanski & Henrichs-Beck, 2014; Szymanski & Kashubeck-West, 2008; Szymanski & Owens, 2009) also found that experiences of sexism and heterosexism—as well as the internalization of such forms of oppression—had unique and cumulative effects on sexual minority women’s mental…”