Sexual minorities are at increased risk for multiple mental health burdens compared with
heterosexuals. The field has identified 2 distinct determinants of this risk, including group …

Sexual minorities are disproportionately affected by mental health problems (eg, depression,
anxiety, substance use disorders, suicidality). Minority stress theory and the psychological …

Hypervigilance is often theoretically invoked as a psychological mechanism linking stigma to
internalizing psychopathology among sexual minorities. Empirically, however …

Objective: Compared to heterosexual men, gay and bisexual men (GBM) are at an
increased risk of adverse mental and sexual health outcomes. The psychological mediation …

Minority stress theory (MST) makes a simple argument: Stigma and prejudice that are
directed at sexual and gender minorities (SGM) in our society bring about a variety of …

Perceived discrimination is a risk factor for mental health problems among sexual minority
individuals. An increasing number of research studies have investigated the mechanisms …

Despite the prominence of shame in stigma theories, its role in explaining population-level
mental-health disparities between the stigmatized and nonstigmatized has not been …

This article describes a social psychological framework for understanding sexual stigma,
and it reports data on sexual minority individuals' stigma-related experiences. The …

Although minority stress processes of internalized stigma and anticipated discrimination are
related to poor mental and physical health, limited research has explored mechanisms …

For over two decades, the minority stress model has guided research on the health of
sexually-diverse individuals (those who are not exclusively heterosexual) and gender …