It gets better with age: Resilience, stigma, and mental health among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer persons from Poland

K Koziara, ME Mijas, A Galbarczyk, J Wycisk… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer populations are disproportionately affected
by chronic stress associated with stigma which contributes to health adversities including …

Dysregulated by stigma: Cortisol responses to repeated psychosocial stress in gay and heterosexual men

M Mijas, M Blukacz, K Koziara, K Kasparek… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Research on pathways linking stigma with health inequalities affecting sexual
minority populations, focused predominantly on exploring the hypothalamic-pituitary …

Chubby, hairy and fearless. Subcultural identities and predictors of self-esteem in a sample of Polish members of bear community

M Mijas, K Koziara, A Galbarczyk… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bear subculture exists within a larger gay community, which has been recognized by public
health experts as disproportionately burdened with stigma and related health adversities …