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Minority Stressors and Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Among Lesbian and Gay Individuals

Sexual minority individuals experience more intimate partner violence (IPV) than those in heterosexual relationships. Issues of mistrust, stigma, and anticipation of abuse contribute to these rates. Lesbian and gay IPV victims have distinct experiences from their abuses with exposure to homophobia,...

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Autores principales: Eric S. Reyes, Marc, Camille M. Alday, Angeli, Jay J. Aurellano, Alexa, Raven R. Escala, Sahara, Ermelo V. Hernandez, Piolo, Esrom P. Matienzo, John, Marian R. Panaguiton, Khim, Charmaine C. Tan, Angeli, Zsila, Ágnes
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9739342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36531155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-022-10046-y
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author Eric S. Reyes, Marc
Camille M. Alday, Angeli
Jay J. Aurellano, Alexa
Raven R. Escala, Sahara
Ermelo V. Hernandez, Piolo
Esrom P. Matienzo, John
Marian R. Panaguiton, Khim
Charmaine C. Tan, Angeli
Zsila, Ágnes
author_facet Eric S. Reyes, Marc
Camille M. Alday, Angeli
Jay J. Aurellano, Alexa
Raven R. Escala, Sahara
Ermelo V. Hernandez, Piolo
Esrom P. Matienzo, John
Marian R. Panaguiton, Khim
Charmaine C. Tan, Angeli
Zsila, Ágnes
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description Sexual minority individuals experience more intimate partner violence (IPV) than those in heterosexual relationships. Issues of mistrust, stigma, and anticipation of abuse contribute to these rates. Lesbian and gay IPV victims have distinct experiences from their abuses with exposure to homophobia, heterosexism, discrimination, and threats of sexual disclosure, among others. These unique and additive minority stressors can lead to adverse health concerns, increase vulnerability to victimization, and elevate abuse perpetration. This study aimed to investigate whether experiences of minority stressors are associated with attitudes toward intimate partner violence among a sample of 240 lesbian and gay Filipinos (155 lesbian and 85 gay participants) aged 20 to 40. Through convenience sampling, lesbian and gay Filipinos completed the Sexual Minority Stress Scale (SMSS) and Intimate Partner Violence Attitude Scale-Revised (IPVAS-Revised). Comparing the minority stressors levels among the participants, lesbians expressed higher expectations of rejection, while gay men experienced more sexual minority adverse events. Lesbians also reported higher satisfaction with outness. Regarding IPV, gay men expressed slightly more favorable attitudes toward abuse, which could make them at risk of becoming victims or perpetrators. Internalized homophobia was associated with more favorable attitudes toward abuse and control, indicating its contribution to more favorable IPV attitudes, although the explanatory power was modest.
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spelling pubmed-97393422022-12-12 Minority Stressors and Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Among Lesbian and Gay Individuals Eric S. Reyes, Marc Camille M. Alday, Angeli Jay J. Aurellano, Alexa Raven R. Escala, Sahara Ermelo V. Hernandez, Piolo Esrom P. Matienzo, John Marian R. Panaguiton, Khim Charmaine C. Tan, Angeli Zsila, Ágnes Sex Cult Original Article Sexual minority individuals experience more intimate partner violence (IPV) than those in heterosexual relationships. Issues of mistrust, stigma, and anticipation of abuse contribute to these rates. Lesbian and gay IPV victims have distinct experiences from their abuses with exposure to homophobia, heterosexism, discrimination, and threats of sexual disclosure, among others. These unique and additive minority stressors can lead to adverse health concerns, increase vulnerability to victimization, and elevate abuse perpetration. This study aimed to investigate whether experiences of minority stressors are associated with attitudes toward intimate partner violence among a sample of 240 lesbian and gay Filipinos (155 lesbian and 85 gay participants) aged 20 to 40. Through convenience sampling, lesbian and gay Filipinos completed the Sexual Minority Stress Scale (SMSS) and Intimate Partner Violence Attitude Scale-Revised (IPVAS-Revised). Comparing the minority stressors levels among the participants, lesbians expressed higher expectations of rejection, while gay men experienced more sexual minority adverse events. Lesbians also reported higher satisfaction with outness. Regarding IPV, gay men expressed slightly more favorable attitudes toward abuse, which could make them at risk of becoming victims or perpetrators. Internalized homophobia was associated with more favorable attitudes toward abuse and control, indicating its contribution to more favorable IPV attitudes, although the explanatory power was modest. Springer US 2022-12-10 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9739342/ /pubmed/36531155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-022-10046-y Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Eric S. Reyes, Marc
Camille M. Alday, Angeli
Jay J. Aurellano, Alexa
Raven R. Escala, Sahara
Ermelo V. Hernandez, Piolo
Esrom P. Matienzo, John
Marian R. Panaguiton, Khim
Charmaine C. Tan, Angeli
Zsila, Ágnes
Minority Stressors and Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Among Lesbian and Gay Individuals
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title_fullStr Minority Stressors and Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Among Lesbian and Gay Individuals
title_full_unstemmed Minority Stressors and Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Among Lesbian and Gay Individuals
title_short Minority Stressors and Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Among Lesbian and Gay Individuals
title_sort minority stressors and attitudes toward intimate partner violence among lesbian and gay individuals
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9739342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36531155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-022-10046-y
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