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Coming out under fire: The role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure
Minority stress is hypothesized to interfere with sexual orientation disclosure and sexual minority wellbeing. In this study, we investigated whether minority stress is causally linked to reduced disclosure in sexual minorities, and whether emotion regulation, a potentially adaptive form of stigma c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9060356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35500012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267810 |
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author | Seager van Dyk, Ilana Aldao, Amelia Pachankis, John E. |
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description | Minority stress is hypothesized to interfere with sexual orientation disclosure and sexual minority wellbeing. In this study, we investigated whether minority stress is causally linked to reduced disclosure in sexual minorities, and whether emotion regulation, a potentially adaptive form of stigma coping, can intervene to promote disclosure even following exposure to minority stress. Sexual minority adults in the US (N = 168) were recruited online and randomized to a 2 x 2 between-subjects experimental design, where they: 1) received either emotion regulation instructions that asked them to either distance themselves from an emotionally evocative film clip or immerse themselves in the clip, and then 2) viewed either an affirming or a minority stress film clip. Following the film clip, participants completed a written reflection task in which they reflected on the film clip they viewed, which allowed research assistants to subsequently code for participants’ spontaneous disclosures of sexual orientation. Participants who viewed the minority stress clip were significantly less likely to spontaneously disclose their sexual orientation in the written task compared to those who viewed the affirming film clip, OR = 3.21, 95% CI [1.14, 9.05], p = .03. Although the emotion regulation manipulation was successful, there was no effect on sexual orientation disclosure. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate a causal link between minority stress and disclosure in sexual minorities, and thus highlights an important mechanism underlying minority stress’s effects on sexual minority wellbeing. Results demonstrate the importance of interventions that affirm marginalized identities and promote safe sexual orientation disclosure. Future research is needed to determine the circumstances under which effective emotion regulation can buffer against the negative emotional effects of minority stress to promote healthy approach behaviors like disclosure in safe contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-90603562022-05-03 Coming out under fire: The role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure Seager van Dyk, Ilana Aldao, Amelia Pachankis, John E. PLoS One Research Article Minority stress is hypothesized to interfere with sexual orientation disclosure and sexual minority wellbeing. In this study, we investigated whether minority stress is causally linked to reduced disclosure in sexual minorities, and whether emotion regulation, a potentially adaptive form of stigma coping, can intervene to promote disclosure even following exposure to minority stress. Sexual minority adults in the US (N = 168) were recruited online and randomized to a 2 x 2 between-subjects experimental design, where they: 1) received either emotion regulation instructions that asked them to either distance themselves from an emotionally evocative film clip or immerse themselves in the clip, and then 2) viewed either an affirming or a minority stress film clip. Following the film clip, participants completed a written reflection task in which they reflected on the film clip they viewed, which allowed research assistants to subsequently code for participants’ spontaneous disclosures of sexual orientation. Participants who viewed the minority stress clip were significantly less likely to spontaneously disclose their sexual orientation in the written task compared to those who viewed the affirming film clip, OR = 3.21, 95% CI [1.14, 9.05], p = .03. Although the emotion regulation manipulation was successful, there was no effect on sexual orientation disclosure. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate a causal link between minority stress and disclosure in sexual minorities, and thus highlights an important mechanism underlying minority stress’s effects on sexual minority wellbeing. Results demonstrate the importance of interventions that affirm marginalized identities and promote safe sexual orientation disclosure. Future research is needed to determine the circumstances under which effective emotion regulation can buffer against the negative emotional effects of minority stress to promote healthy approach behaviors like disclosure in safe contexts. Public Library of Science 2022-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9060356/ /pubmed/35500012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267810 Text en © 2022 Seager van Dyk et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Seager van Dyk, Ilana Aldao, Amelia Pachankis, John E. Coming out under fire: The role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure |
title | Coming out under fire: The role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure |
title_full | Coming out under fire: The role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure |
title_fullStr | Coming out under fire: The role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure |
title_full_unstemmed | Coming out under fire: The role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure |
title_short | Coming out under fire: The role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure |
title_sort | coming out under fire: the role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9060356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35500012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267810 |
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