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Anxiety and Related Disorders and Concealment in Sexual Minority Young Adults
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Anxiety and Related Disorders and Concealment in Sexual Minority Young Adults
Yazar:
Cohen, Jeffrey M., author.
ISBN:
9780438025240
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1 electronic resource (66 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: B.
Advisors: C. Barr Taylor Committee members: Kimberly Balsam; Christine Blasey; Michelle G. Newman.
Özet:
Minority stress places sexual minorities at risk for anxiety and related disorders. Study one investigated the symptoms of anxiety and related disorders in sexual minority young adults relative to their heterosexual peers and sexual orientation concealment as a predictor of disorders. A sample of 157 sexual minority and 157 heterosexual young adults matched on age and gender completed self-report measures of the aforementioned disorders, and indicated their level of sexual orientation concealment. Results revealed that sexual minority young adults reported greater symptoms relative to heterosexuals across all outcome measures. Concealment of sexual orientation significantly predicted symptoms of social phobia. Rejection sensitivity (RS), or the anxious expectation of rejection, is also associated with depression and social anxiety symptoms among lesbians and gay men. However, it remains unclear if it is associated with other internalizing symptoms. Further, research on the comorbidity of mental disorders suggests that a latent transdiagnostic internalizing factor (INT) accounts for the co-occurrences between mood and anxiety disorders. Using a sample of young gay and bisexual men (N=101), study two examined the associations between RS and internalizing symptoms and the extent to which these associations were mediated by INT. Results indicated that RS was significantly associated with social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms, and that INT fully mediated these associations.
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School code: 1569
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