“It truly does get better”: Young sexual minority men’s resilient responses to sexual minority stress
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Due to minority stress, sexual minority men experience mental health disparities. Sexual minority men who engaged in cognitive-behavioral therapy to address the minority stress underlying their distress completed an exercise eliciting their own resilience. This exercise involved writing an advice letter to a hypothetical peer about coping with minority stress. Qualitative analysis of these letters yielded 18 codes grouped into three categories reflecting resilience to minority stress. Categories included (1) cultivating internal affirmation strategies, (2) building supportive relationships and community, and (3) using cognitive and behavioral skills to cope with minority stress. Findings highlight this population's resilience and suggest building resilience through treatment.
Institutions: University of Miami, Yale University
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: Addressing psychosocial comorbidities in HIV treatment and prevention, Mechanisms and Health Impact of Insomnia as an HIV Comorbidity, University of Miami Developmental HIV/AIDS Mental Health Research Center (D-ARC), A unified intervention for young gay and bisexual men's minority stress, mental health, and HIV risk, The University of Miami AIDS Research Center on Mental Health and HIV/AIDS - Center for HIV & Research in Mental Health (CHARM)
OpenAlex ID: W3000666529