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

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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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

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Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science - 18(2023), 6 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 1537-1561

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lefevor, G Tyler [VerfasserIn]
Etengoff, Chana [VerfasserIn]
Davis, Edward B [VerfasserIn]
Skidmore, Samuel J [VerfasserIn]
Rodriguez, Eric M [VerfasserIn]
McGraw, James S [VerfasserIn]
Rostosky, Sharon S [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
LGBTQ
Minority stress
Religion
Resilience
Spirituality

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Date Completed 03.11.2023

Date Revised 03.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/17456916231179137

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM358704065