Lesbian, gay, and bisexual religiosity across the life span: Associations with group identification and identity salience

Scroggs, Barrett; Faflick, Nathaniel

doi:10.1080/10538720.2018.1517398

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“…Gender and sexual identity. SGMs may experience RS, minority stress, and resilience differently depending on their specific sexual and gender identities (Barringer, 2020;Scroggs & Faflick, 2019). Often, research on sexual minorities is presumed to apply to gender minorities without a substantive representation of gender minorities in this work (Moradi et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Religion/Spirituality, Stress, and Resilience Among Sexual and Gender Minorities: The Religious/Spiritual Stress and Resilience Model

Lefevor

Etengoff

Davis

et al. 2023

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Although many sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) consider themselves religious or spiritual, the impact of this religiousness or spirituality (RS) on their health is poorly understood. We introduce the religious/spiritual stress and resilience model (RSSR) to provide a robust framework for understanding the variegated ways that RS influences the health of SGMs. The RSSR bridges existing theorizing on minority stress, structural stigma, and RS-health pathways to articulate the circumstances under which SGMs likely experience RS as health promoting or health damaging. The RSSR makes five key propositions: (a) Minority stress and resilience processes influence health; (b) RS influences general resilience processes; (c) RS influences minority-specific stress and resilience processes; (d) these relationships are moderated by a number of variables uniquely relevant to RS among SGMs, such as congregational stances on same-sex sexual behavior and gender expression or an individual’s degree of SGM and RS identity integration; and (e) relationships between minority stress and resilience, RS, and health are bidirectional. In this manuscript, we describe the empirical basis for each of the five propositions focusing on research examining the relationship between RS and health among SGMs. We conclude by describing how the RSSR may inform future research on RS and health among SGMs.

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Section: Rs Identity Saliencementioning

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Religion/Spirituality, Stress, and Resilience Among Sexual and Gender Minorities: The Religious/Spiritual Stress and Resilience Model

Lefevor

Etengoff

Davis

et al. 2023

Perspect Psychol Sci

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“…Taken together, these findings suggest that males, and more specifically gay and bisexual males, may be affected disproportionality by conflict between religiosity/spirituality and their identities. This may be due to the differences in religiosity found by authors, such as Scroggs and Faflick (2018) and Sherkat (2002). There is also a possibility that gender differences on conflict might be connected to differences on LGB identity dimensions, namely, the fact that (cisgender) Portuguese men have previously reported more difficulties in their process of accepting their LGB identity, more dissatisfaction with their identity and more sensibility to stigma (Oliveira et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 98%

Conflict between religious/spiritual and LGB identities in Portugal: How is it related to coming out experiences, LGB identity dimensions and well-being?

Fernandes¹,

Reis²,

Moleiro³

2023

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Even though Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) individuals are usually less religious than the general population, religion and/or spirituality are still a part of many LGB people's lives. This article focused on investigating the relation between the conflict between religious/spiritual and LGB identities and subjective well-being, dimensions of LGB identity and outness, in a Portuguese sample. The participants were 126LGB people, with 80 of them being female, from a mostly Catholic context in Southern Europe-Portugal. Conflict between religious and LGB identities was found to be significantly and negatively correlated with outness and positive affect; and positively correlated with negative affect and some LGB identity dimensions, Internalized Homonegativity, Difficult Process (DP), Acceptance Concerns (AC), and Concealment Motivation (CM). People who felt conflict between their religious/spiritual and LGB identities were found to have higher scores on DP, AC, CM, and Identity Centrality than those who did not experience it. Implications are discussed in terms of the diversity of strategies LGB people use to reconcile their dual identities.

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“…Additional Measures. In Sample 2A, the only additional measures that participants completed were demographics and a measure of connection to the LGBT+ community (adapted from Scroggs & Faflick, 2018).…”

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Antecedents and consequences of LGBT individuals’ perceptions of straight allyship.

Chen¹,

Joel²,

Lingl³

2023

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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People often self-identify as allies to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. This research examined on what basis LGBT individuals perceive others to be allies and documents the consequences of perceived allyship. Studies 1a (n = 40) and 1b (n = 69) collected open-ended descriptions of allyship provided by LGBT participants. Coding of the responses suggested multiple components to being an ally: (a) being nonprejudiced toward the group, (b) taking action against discrimination and inequality, and (c) having humility about one's perspective in discussions about LGBT issues. In Studies 2a (n = 161) and 2b (n = 319, with nationally representative characteristics), an allyship scale was developed and validated for general and specific relational contexts, respectively. Study 2b also showed that LGBT individuals' perceptions of close others' allyship were positively associated with their own well-being and relationship quality with the close other. Study 3, an experiment, demonstrated that nonprejudice and action had an interactive effect on perceived allyship, such that action increased perceived allyship more when prejudice was low (vs. high). Study 4 was a weekly experience study of LGBT participants and an outgroup roommate. Perceiving one's roommate to be a good ally predicted higher self-esteem, greater subjective well-being, and better relationship quality with the roommate, both between and within participants. Furthermore, perceived allyship in 1 week was associated with increases in LGBT individuals' mental health and relationship quality with the roommate the following week. This research advances knowledge about what allyship means to LGBT individuals and identifies intra-and interpersonal benefits of allyship.

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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual religiosity across the life span: Associations with group identification and identity salience

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

Religion/Spirituality, Stress, and Resilience Among Sexual and Gender Minorities: The Religious/Spiritual Stress and Resilience Model

Religion/Spirituality, Stress, and Resilience Among Sexual and Gender Minorities: The Religious/Spiritual Stress and Resilience Model

Conflict between religious/spiritual and LGB identities in Portugal: How is it related to coming out experiences, LGB identity dimensions and well-being?

Antecedents and consequences of LGBT individuals’ perceptions of straight allyship.

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