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Raymond, Victor J.

doi:10.1300/j159v05n02_18

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“…Indeed, bicultural selfefficacy may be particularly salient for bisexual individuals who are conceptualized as experiencing the "borderlands," or margins between lesbian and gay culture and mainstream heterosexual culture, blurring intergroup boundaries and challenging both heterosexist and monosexist relationship and identity norms (BenZeev et al, 2012;Collins, 2004;Dworkin, 2002;Raymond, 2005). Learning to adapt in these multiple cultural contexts is posited to foster bisexual individuals' ability to live fiuidly and outside of the constraints of traditional identities (Dworkin, 2002).…”

Section: Mental Health Promotersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although there may be notable differences between the experiences of racial/ethnic minority and sexual minority people (e.g., being members of racialized and “visible” groups vs. potentially “nonvisible” groups) experiences of marginalization by the dominant culture (e.g., White heterosexual) and the need to navigate minority and majority cultures suggest the applicability of bicultural self-efficacy to bisexual people. Indeed, bicultural self-efficacy may be particularly salient for bisexual individuals who are conceptualized as experiencing the “borderlands,” or margins between lesbian and gay culture and mainstream heterosexual culture, blurring intergroup boundaries and challenging both heterosexist and monosexist relationship and identity norms (Ben-Zeev et al, 2012; Collins, 2004; Dworkin, 2002; Raymond, 2005). Learning to adapt in these multiple cultural contexts is posited to foster bisexual individuals’ ability to live fluidly and outside of the constraints of traditional identities (Dworkin, 2002).…”

Section: Mental Health Promotersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Navigating the borderlands: The roles of minority stressors, bicultural self-efficacy, and cognitive flexibility in the mental health of bisexual individuals.

Brewster¹,

Moradi²,

DeBlaere³

et al. 2013

Journal of Counseling Psychology

193

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The present study examined the relations of minority stressors (i.e., experiences of prejudice, expectations of stigma, internalized biphobia, outness/concealment of bisexuality) as well as posited mental health promoters (i.e., bicultural self-efficacy, cognitive flexibility) with psychological distress and well-being in a sample of 411 bisexual people. Most of the minority stress variables were related positively with psychological distress and negatively with well-being, whereas the mental health-promoting variables were related negatively with psychological distress and positively with well-being. Results also indicated that expectations of stigma mediated the associations of antibisexual prejudice with greater distress and lower well-being, internalized biphobia was related directly with greater distress and lower well-being, and outness was linked with some costs and benefits. Moderated mediation analyses offered some evidence consistent with cognitive flexibility (but not bicultural self-efficacy) as a moderator. Specifically, within the mediation models, cognitive flexibility moderated the unique direct relation of antibisexual prejudice with psychological well-being, the relation of antibisexual prejudice with expectations of stigma, and the indirect relations of antibisexual prejudice with distress and well-being through the mediating role of expectations of stigma. These moderations were consistent with the expected buffering role of cognitive flexibility, but they also revealed that some of this buffering effect is exhausted in the context of high prejudice. Limitations of the study as well as implications for future research and practice with bisexual populations are discussed.

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Section: Mental Health Promotersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mental Health Promotersmentioning

confidence: 99%