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Parenting Desire and Minority Stress in Lesbians and Gay Men: A Mediation Framework
Despite the rapid increase in lesbian and gay (LG) people who desire and decide to become parents, LG childless individuals may encounter serious obstacles in the parenthood process, such as minority stress. Notwithstanding, the psychological processes by which prejudice events might affect the desi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211138/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30360398 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102318 |
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author | Amodeo, Anna Lisa Esposito, Concetta Bochicchio, Vincenzo Valerio, Paolo Vitelli, Roberto Bacchini, Dario Scandurra, Cristiano |
author_facet | Amodeo, Anna Lisa Esposito, Concetta Bochicchio, Vincenzo Valerio, Paolo Vitelli, Roberto Bacchini, Dario Scandurra, Cristiano |
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description | Despite the rapid increase in lesbian and gay (LG) people who desire and decide to become parents, LG childless individuals may encounter serious obstacles in the parenthood process, such as minority stress. Notwithstanding, the psychological processes by which prejudice events might affect the desire to become parents are still understudied. As an extension of the minority stress theory, the psychological mediation framework sheds light on these psychological processes, as it encompasses a more clinical view of stress. Within this framework, the current study aimed at assessing the role of prejudice events in affecting parenting desire in 290 childless Italian LG individuals (120 lesbians and 170 gay men), as well as the role of internalized heterosexism and sexual orientation concealment in mediating the relationship between prejudice events and parenting desire. The results suggest that only in lesbians prejudice events were negatively associated with parenting desire, and that sexual orientation concealment and internalized heterosexism were also negatively associated with parenting desire. Furthermore, sexual orientation concealment, and not internalized heterosexism, mediated the relationship between prejudice events and parenting desire in lesbians, but not gay men. The findings have important implications for clinical practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-62111382018-11-14 Parenting Desire and Minority Stress in Lesbians and Gay Men: A Mediation Framework Amodeo, Anna Lisa Esposito, Concetta Bochicchio, Vincenzo Valerio, Paolo Vitelli, Roberto Bacchini, Dario Scandurra, Cristiano Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Despite the rapid increase in lesbian and gay (LG) people who desire and decide to become parents, LG childless individuals may encounter serious obstacles in the parenthood process, such as minority stress. Notwithstanding, the psychological processes by which prejudice events might affect the desire to become parents are still understudied. As an extension of the minority stress theory, the psychological mediation framework sheds light on these psychological processes, as it encompasses a more clinical view of stress. Within this framework, the current study aimed at assessing the role of prejudice events in affecting parenting desire in 290 childless Italian LG individuals (120 lesbians and 170 gay men), as well as the role of internalized heterosexism and sexual orientation concealment in mediating the relationship between prejudice events and parenting desire. The results suggest that only in lesbians prejudice events were negatively associated with parenting desire, and that sexual orientation concealment and internalized heterosexism were also negatively associated with parenting desire. Furthermore, sexual orientation concealment, and not internalized heterosexism, mediated the relationship between prejudice events and parenting desire in lesbians, but not gay men. The findings have important implications for clinical practice. MDPI 2018-10-22 2018-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6211138/ /pubmed/30360398 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102318 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Amodeo, Anna Lisa Esposito, Concetta Bochicchio, Vincenzo Valerio, Paolo Vitelli, Roberto Bacchini, Dario Scandurra, Cristiano Parenting Desire and Minority Stress in Lesbians and Gay Men: A Mediation Framework |
title | Parenting Desire and Minority Stress in Lesbians and Gay Men: A Mediation Framework |
title_full | Parenting Desire and Minority Stress in Lesbians and Gay Men: A Mediation Framework |
title_fullStr | Parenting Desire and Minority Stress in Lesbians and Gay Men: A Mediation Framework |
title_full_unstemmed | Parenting Desire and Minority Stress in Lesbians and Gay Men: A Mediation Framework |
title_short | Parenting Desire and Minority Stress in Lesbians and Gay Men: A Mediation Framework |
title_sort | parenting desire and minority stress in lesbians and gay men: a mediation framework |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211138/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30360398 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102318 |
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