The right comparisons in testing the minority stress hypothesis: comment on Savin-Williams, Cohen, Joyner, and Rieger (2010).
The right comparisons in testing the minority stress hypothesis: comment on Savin-Williams, Cohen, Joyner, and Rieger (2010).
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检验少数压力假说的正确比较：对 Savin-Williams、Cohen、Joyner 和 Rieger (2010) 的评论。
DOI：
10.1007/s10508-010-9670-8
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发表时间：
2010
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3.8
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Meyer,IlanH
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Savin-Williams, Cohen, Joyner, and Rieger (2010) suggest that purported ‘‘mental health discrepancies among male sexual orientation groups are illusory.’’They suggest that their findings regarding gay men’s depressive symptoms rebut minority stress explanation of sexual orientation mental health disparities. But as it pertains to minority stress theory, their rationale is flawed.Minority stress is a frequently used framework for understanding observed health disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual populations (Herek & Garnets, 2007). Minority stress suggests that (1) lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGB) comprise a disadvantaged social group that is subject to stigma and prejudice;(2) stigma and prejudice related to sexual orientation predispose LGB to excess stress; and (3) in turn, this excess stress may lead to adverse health outcomesand, thus, observedhealthdisparities (Meyer, 2003). Studies using the minority stress perspective have consistently documented mental health disparities between LGB and heterosexual populations. This is evidenced, for example, in studies that used meta-analysis to summarize this literature (King et al., 2008; Meyer, 2003). Savin-Williams et al. argued that the observed disparity is faulty because researchers have used an inappropriate reference group in studying mental health outcomes in gay and bisexual men. Typically, researchers compare gay and bisexual men with heterosexual men when they document mental health disparities; Savin-Williams et al. suggest that gay and bisexual men should be compared with heterosexual women, not men. The reason for this is that ‘‘cross-sex comparisons are
