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Types of Interpersonal Bias: Measurement and Their Association With Health Among LGBTQ Older Adults

Increasing diversity and rapidly evolving sociopolitical context is changing the face of bias experiences in contemporary America. Accordingly, literature has evolved into four unique ways of describing bias, namely lifetime discrimination and victimization, everyday discrimination, and microaggress...

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Autores principales: Prasad, Anyah, Goldsen, Karen Fredriksen, Kim, Hyun, Jung, Hailey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743057/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2614
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description Increasing diversity and rapidly evolving sociopolitical context is changing the face of bias experiences in contemporary America. Accordingly, literature has evolved into four unique ways of describing bias, namely lifetime discrimination and victimization, everyday discrimination, and microaggressions. However, there is less conceptual clarity on the way these constructs are operationalized, measured, and their relationship to one another and health outcomes. In this paper, we discuss the measurement of these four constructs and report their prevalence among a national sample of LGBTQ older adults (N=2,450). The correlation between these constructs varied between 0.36 to 0.63, which shows that despite considerable overlap they are measuring distinct aspects of bias experiences. Each of the constructs had a significant association with depression, general health and quality of life. When the four constructs were entered into a regression model, everyday discrimination (due to sexual and gender identity and other factors) emerged as the strongest predictor.
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spelling pubmed-77430572020-12-21 Types of Interpersonal Bias: Measurement and Their Association With Health Among LGBTQ Older Adults Prasad, Anyah Goldsen, Karen Fredriksen Kim, Hyun Jung, Hailey Innov Aging Abstracts Increasing diversity and rapidly evolving sociopolitical context is changing the face of bias experiences in contemporary America. Accordingly, literature has evolved into four unique ways of describing bias, namely lifetime discrimination and victimization, everyday discrimination, and microaggressions. However, there is less conceptual clarity on the way these constructs are operationalized, measured, and their relationship to one another and health outcomes. In this paper, we discuss the measurement of these four constructs and report their prevalence among a national sample of LGBTQ older adults (N=2,450). The correlation between these constructs varied between 0.36 to 0.63, which shows that despite considerable overlap they are measuring distinct aspects of bias experiences. Each of the constructs had a significant association with depression, general health and quality of life. When the four constructs were entered into a regression model, everyday discrimination (due to sexual and gender identity and other factors) emerged as the strongest predictor. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7743057/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2614 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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