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- Title
Dyadic effects of enacted stigma, internalized homophobia, and communal coping on depressive symptoms among cisgender sexual minority male couples.
- Authors
Curtis, Michael G.; Kogan, Steven; Mitchell, Jason W.; Stephenson, Rob
- Abstract
The present study investigated the dyadic direct and indirect effects of enacted stigma on depressive symptoms via internalized homophobia and whether communal coping moderated the effects of enacted stigma on internalized homophobia and depressive symptoms. Hypotheses were tested using actor–partner interdependence models with a sample of 543 cisgender sexual minority male couples. Results showed both partners' enacted stigma experiences were associated with elevated levels of internalized homophobia via actor and partner effects. Internalized homophobia was only associated with elevated depressive symptoms via actor effects. Indirect effects analysis suggested that internalized homophobia mediated the actor and partner influence of enacted stigma on depressive symptoms. Communal coping moderated the direct effects of enacted stigma on internalized homophobia and attenuated the conditional indirect actor and partner effects of enacted stigma on depressive symptoms. Findings underscore the role of intimate relationship processes in understanding the impacts of enacted stigma on depressive symptoms.
- Subjects
MENTAL depression risk factors; CROSS-sectional method; MATHEMATICAL models; SOCIAL stigma; HOMOPHOBIA; SPOUSES; RISK assessment; MENTAL depression; SEXUAL minorities; THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; CISGENDER people; GAY men
- Publication
Family Process, 2022, Vol 61, Issue 4, p1541
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/famp.12746