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Discomfort in LGBT Community and Psychological Wellbeing for LGBT Asian Americans: The Moderating Role of Racial/Ethnic Identity Importance

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  • Alternative Title:
    Asian Am J Psychol
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    While past research has examined the deleterious effects of racism on Asian Americans, fewer studies have investigated lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian Americans' unique experiences of oppression and unbelonging within the broader LGBT community. Guided by intersectionality and minority stress theoretical frameworks, the present study examined the effect of discomfort due to one's race/ethnicity within the LBGT community on psychological wellbeing in a national sample of 480 LGBT Asian Americans from the Social Justice Sexuality Project. The moderating role of how important one considered their race/ethnicity to their identity was also examined. Regression analyses revealed that greater discomfort due to one's race/ethnicity within the LGBT community was associated with reduced psychological wellbeing for LGBT Asian Americans who viewed their racial/ethnic identity as moderately or highly important, whereas this association was not significant for LGBT Asian Americans who considered their racial/ethnic identity as less important. These findings highlight the necessity of examining the role of racial/ethnic discomfort in relation to LGBT Asian Americans' psychological wellbeing, as well as the extent to which LGBT Asian Americans consider their race/ethnicity as important.
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    Asian Am J Psychol. 13(2):149-157
  • Pubmed ID:
    35983434
  • Pubmed Central ID:
    PMC9380649
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
  • Funding:
    U48 DP006382/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/
  • Volume:
    13
  • Issue:
    2
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    urn:sha256:2dcdaa49c03b96c8dc386247855c41e67e7147a7ac45f77a1e7fce173dd5e2d7
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