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Self-Compassion as a Resilience Factor in Gender and Sexual Minority Youth. 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학위논문
  • 저자명Vigna, Abra
  • 학회/출판사/기관명The University of Wisconsin - Madison Human Ecology
  • 출판년도2016
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기
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  • 소개/요약Disparities in risk exposure and health risk behavior (HRB) engagement between gender and/or sexual minority (GSMi) youth and gender and sexual majority(GSMa) youth are well documented. It is imperative that research investigating individual level factors associated with resilience to stigma among GSMi youth be identified as we work concurrently to reduce the existence and impact of structural sources of stigma in our society. To date, the majority of quantitative work has focused on illuminating the patterns associated with the production of disparities. Grounded in resilience science, social ecology, the minority stress model and extant research on self-compassion, a secondary data analyses of school-level data collected by the 2015 Dane County Youth Assessment ( n=1882) was conducted to investigate the role that dispositional Self-Compassion (DSC) may play as a potential resilience process that allows GSMi youth to compassionately encounter stigma rather than internalizing or externalizing it via HRBs. Results suggest that higher DSC is associated with lower rates of exposure to adversity and with lower engagement in HRBs such as suicidality, substance use and risky sexual behaviors across all youth. Further, in this sample, significant differences in levels of DSC exist across racial categories (i.e. white or person of color) and across GSMy groups. Finally, evidence suggests that DSC partially mediates the relation between GSMy status and engagement in HRBs, more so than does exposure to minority stress. However, results of moderation analyses suggest this effect is conditional upon amount of adversity reported, degree of DSC reported and racial category._x000D_