Minority stress and the moderating role of religious coping among religious and spiritual sexual minority individuals.

Brewster, Melanie E.; Velez, Brandon L.; Foster, Aasha B.; Esposito, Jessica; Robinson, Matthew

doi:10.1037/cou0000121

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“…Generally, religious messages are associated with emotional support, 50 and a prior study of sexual minority individuals showed that religious coping can moderate minority stress due to sexual minorities' disadvantaged social status. 51 This study extends previous findings to show that religious coping may be used by SMW with cancer to support their peers in OHCs. Future research should examine the context of religion and spirituality for SMW in coping with cancer.…”

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Online health community experiences of sexual minority women with cancer

Lee

Kamen

Margolies

et al. 2019

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

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Objective The study sought to explore online health communities (OHCs) for sexual minority women (SMW) with cancer by conducting computational text analysis on posts. Materials and Methods Eight moderated OHCs were hosted by the National LGBT Cancer Network from 2013 to 2015. Forty-six SMW wrote a total of 885 posts across the OHCs, which were analyzed using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count and latent Dirichlet allocation. Pearson correlation was calculated between Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count word categories and participant engagement in the OHCs. Latent Dirichlet allocation was used to derive main topics. Results Participants (average age 46 years; 89% white/non-Hispanic) who used more sadness, female-reference, drives, and religion-related words were more likely to post in the OHCs. Ten topics emerged: coping, holidays and vacation, cancer diagnosis and treatment, structure of day-to-day life, self-care, loved ones, physical recovery, support systems, body image, and symptom management. Coping was the most common topic; symptom management was the least common topic. Discussion Highly engaged SMW in the OHCs connected to others via their shared female gender identity. Topics discussed in these OHCs were similar to OHCs for heterosexual women, and sexual identity was not a dominant topic. The presence of OHC moderators may have driven participation. Formal comparison between sexual minority and heterosexual women’s OHCs are needed. Conclusions Our findings contribute to a better understanding of the experiences of SMW cancer survivors and can inform the development of tailored OHC-based interventions for SMW who are survivors of cancer.

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confidence: 85%

Online health community experiences of sexual minority women with cancer

Lee

Kamen

Margolies

et al. 2019

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

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“…This could be due to the fact that the Italian Catholic Church -as Italian culture in general -is strongly based on traditional values (e.g., clear division of gender roles) and conservative religious beliefs, thus representing a potentially dangerous environment for Italian sexual minorities. In fact, LGBQ+ people who belong to non-affirming religious communities (Barnes and Meyer, 2012) or who use negative religious coping (Brewster et al, 2016) are highly at risk of experiencing ISS. With regard to the other minority stressors, to our knowledge, no prior study has investigated the expectation of negative events (i.e., vigilance) among LGBQ+ persons who belong to a religious community, and only a few studies have considered experiences of discrimination from one's religious community; these studies have found such discrimination to relate to higher ISS and greater religious struggle, which, in turn, were associated with poorer wellbeing (Szymanski and Carretta, 2020).…”

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The Coming-Out Process in Family, Social, and Religious Contexts Among Young, Middle, and Older Italian LGBQ+ Adults

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The coming out (CO) process is fundamental for identity integration among LGBQ+ people, and its impact can vary greatly depending on personal and contextual factors. The historical, cultural, and social contexts in which LGBQ+ people develop their sexual identity can mediate the relationship between CO and health outcomes. The present study aimed at clarifying the CO process in three generations of Italian LGBQ+ people (young adults: aged 20–40 years; middle adults: aged 41–60 years; older adults: aged 61–80 years) by providing data on: (a) sexual orientation milestones, such as age of first awareness, age of first self-label, and age of first CO, as well as the rate of disclosure during different life stages; (b) the rate and average age of CO to significant others; and (c) CO within the religious context and its effect on participants’ minority stress experiences. A total of 266 Italian LGBQ+ people participated in the study, with ages ranging from 20 to 80 years (M = 41.15, SD = 16.13). Findings indicated that, on average, the older adult group became self-aware, self-labeled, and disclosed their sexual identity at a significantly older age than the other groups. Older adults were also more Catholic and had CO more frequently to their Catholic community, relative to young and middle adults. CO within the Catholic context was associated with distal and proximal minority stressors, such as discrimination, vigilance, and internalized sexual stigma. Catholic community reactions to participants’ CO were distinguished through thematic analysis in three main types: unconditional acceptance, invitation to change, and open rejection. The present research extended current knowledge on CO and minority stress experiences in different generations of LGBQ+ people. Several differences emerged between generational groups on sexual orientation milestones, highlighting the potential impact of historical and cultural contexts in determining sexual minorities’ experiences related to sexual identity. It is recommended that mental health professionals working with LGBQ+ clients implement targeted interventions based on their clients’ multiple salient aspects, including age and religious background. Clinicians should also be aware of the potentially detrimental effects of CO within an unsupportive context, rather than encouraging CO tout court.

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“…Perilaku seksual remaja saat ini yang berawal dengan pacaran, telah mengalami penyimpangan seksual. Hal ini disertai aktivitas seksual lain yang membuat melakukan hubungan seksual sebelum menikah (Brewster, Velez, Foster, Esposito, & Robinson, 2016;Hartati, 2018). Perilaku seksual yang menyimpang ini menimbulkan risiko bagi remaja, salah satunya penyakit menular seksual hingga mengalami HIV/AIDS.…”

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Koping Religius Remaja ODHA di Kota Bandung

Aisyah¹,

Widianti²,

Lusiani³

2020

JPKI

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ABSTRAKRemaja dengan HIV AIDS merupakan kelompok minoritas yang berkebutuhan khusus yang harus ditingkatkan kualitas hidupnya . Aspek spiritual sangat berperan penting dalam kehidupan remaja dimana bisa menjadi bagian perlindungan diri terhadap status kesehatan yang buruk. Keyakinan religius akan mempunyai peran penting dalam pengambilan keputusan yang besar dalam hidupnya. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengekplorasi koping religius remaja dengan HIV AIDS. Penelitian dilakukan di Rumah Cemara Bandung. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif fenomenologi dengan metode deskriptif eksploratif. Tehnik pengambilan sampling menggunakan purposeful sampling. Pengambilan data dilakukan terhadap 5 orang partisipan remaja ODHA dengan teknik semi-indepth interview. Pengolahan data menggunakan pendekatan Empirical Phenomenological Psychological untuk mendapatkan tema – tema yang sesuai dengan tujuan penelitian. Adapun tema-tema yang ditemukan dalam penelitian adalah penyakit yang dialami sebagai hukuman dari tuhan, koping religius pasif, religisiusitas yang rendah,self directing koping. Hal ini menunjukkan adanya kecenderungan remaja ODHA menggunakan pola koping religius negatif. Berdasarkan penelitian diatas diperlukan suatu upaya integrasi asuhan keperawatan dengan pendekatan spiritual pada remaja HIV khususnya kelompok LSL. ABSTRACTHIV infected adolescent are a minority group with special needs who must improve their quality of life. Spiritual aspect is important to adolescents, is usually considered a protective factor against a host of negative health outcomes. Religious faith have role in making major life decisions. The purpose of this study was to explore the religious coping of adolescents who are diagnosed with HIV AIDS. The study was conducted at Rumah Cemara Bandung. This research is a qualitative phenomenology design with decriptive explorative. The sampling technique used purposeful sampling. The data collection from five participants with semi in depth interviewed. Data analysis were used the empirical phenomenological Psychological method. The themes found in this study are illness was experienced as punishment from God, passive religious coping, low religiousity, self directing coping. This showed HIV infected adolescent with homosexual behaviour tended negative religious coping patterns. The result suggest that spiritual care is important for adolescent are diagnosed with HIV with homosexuality.

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Minority stress and the moderating role of religious coping among religious and spiritual sexual minority individuals.

Cited by 68 publications

References 59 publications

Online health community experiences of sexual minority women with cancer

Online health community experiences of sexual minority women with cancer

The Coming-Out Process in Family, Social, and Religious Contexts Among Young, Middle, and Older Italian LGBQ+ Adults

Koping Religius Remaja ODHA di Kota Bandung

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