First Comes Marriage, Then Comes the Election: Macro-level Event Impacts on African American, Latina/x, and White Sexual Minority Women

Riggle, Ellen D. B.; Drabble, Laurie A.; Matthews, Alicia K.; Veldhuis, Cindy B.; Nisi, Robyn A.; Hughes, Tonda L.

doi:10.1007/s13178-020-00435-z

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“…For example, Black or Latinx LGBTQ individuals may be more hypervigilant in interactions with the police or government agency personnel (for example, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE); or race and gender may interact to produce different experiences in different settings (e.g., neighborhoods; Lampe et al, 2020). For example, Riggle et al (2021) discovered differences among the experiences of Black, Latinx, and White sexual minority women in their interactions with other people following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Future study with more diverse samples will need to validate the suggested measure and possibly expand upon it.…”

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A measure of hypervigilance in LGBTQ-identified individuals.

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Hypervigilance is an individual's heightened awareness to threat or potential threats in their surroundings, may be context specific, and may be associated with negative mental health outcomes. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-identified individuals may experience hypervigilance related to their stigmatized status. There are few measures of general hypervigilance and no measure of LGBTQ-specific hypervigilance. A sample of LGBTQ-identified individuals (N = 378) was recruited for an online survey. Using exploratory structural equation modeling, we examined the factor structure of 13 items related to where (locations and contextual conditions) and around whom hypervigilance occurred, and 12 items assessing hypervigilant behaviors. Three-factor models were indicated for each set of items. Individuals experienced hypervigilance around strangers, conservative/religious people, and in work settings; they reported hypervigilance as social withdrawal, identity concealment, and scanning behaviors. Individuals who experienced one type of hypervigilant behavior also tended to report other types of hypervigilant behavior. Some group differences by gender identity, sexual identity, and racial/ethnic identity were found; specifically people of color and transgender and nonbinary (TNB) individuals tended to experience more hypervigilance than White and non-TNB individuals, respectively. Expected associations were found between the proposed factors and fear of negative evaluation, depressive and posttraumatic stress symptoms, and satisfaction with life. The suggested factor structure and scales will assist researchers and practitioners in identifying possible LGBTQ-specific hypervigilance and points of intervention.

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A measure of hypervigilance in LGBTQ-identified individuals.

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“…Some emerging research focuses on how LGBTQ people are resilient during anti-LGBTQ sociopolitical contexts, including the presidential administration of Donald Trump. Despite enacting policies and legislation designed to threaten the health, well-being, and safety of LGBTQ people each year Trump was in office (see Simonoff et al, 2020), scholarship has explored how LGBTQ people were resilient during Trump’s election and presidency (e.g., Gonzalez et al, in press; Brown & Keller, 2018; Riggle et al, 2018, 2020). Just as anti-LGBTQ political administrations negatively impact LGBTQ people, global pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic, have the potential to significantly impact LGBTQ people.…”

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“Previous resilience has taught me that I can survive anything:” LGBTQ resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has disproportionately negatively affected the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community, a group who faces identity-based marginalization in society. LGBTQ resilience narratives are important in buffering against the negative impact of minority stress, but little is known about how LGBTQ people have been resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic. The current research addresses this gap in the literature. Participants included 129 LGBTQ individuals who shared how they have been resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative thematic analysis revealed three COVID-19-specific resilience themes, including: (1) Previous preparation fostered resilience, (2) Radical acceptance as resilience, and (3) Resilience through providing support and building community. Discussion explores how psychologists can work with LGBTQ people to identify and cultivate resilience narratives focused on self-love, self-acceptance, radical acceptance, and community resilience. Public Significance StatementResilience narratives are important for all people but are particularly important for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) people who face identity-based harassment, rejection, and societal stigmatization. LGBTQ participants shared their resilience narratives and identified how previous preparation fostered resilience during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, radical acceptance was a source of resilience, and resilience was seen through providing support and building community with other LGBTQ individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Wave 4 added questions about perceived stress, coping, resilience, suicidality, family reactions to sexual identity disclosure, community connectedness, partners' race/ethnicity, ------IJADR 9(1) ------perceived impact of same-sex marriage legalization, and expanded measures of intimate partner aggression (IPA). In this wave we also conducted an online survey to gather additional contextual information about the perceived impacts of legalized same-sex marriage and the 2016 U.S. Presidential election (Riggle et al, 2020). In addition, Hughes and colleagues conducted a national online survey (Drabble et al, 2019;Riggle et al, 2018b;Veldhuis et al, 2018) and a qualitative interview study with 20 SMW (Riggle et al, 2018a) to further disentangle the potential contradictory impacts of legalized same-sex marriage and the election of a conservative governing party.…”

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Alcohol use among sexual minority women: Methods used and lessons learned in the 20-Year Chicago Health and Life Experiences of Women Study

Hughes

Wilsnack

Mack

et al. 2021

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Background: Two decades ago, there was almost no research on alcohol use among sexual minority women (SMW, e.g., lesbian, bisexual). Since then, a growing body of scientific literature documents substantial sexual orientation-related disparities in alcohol use and alcohol-related problems. Research has identified multiple risk factors associated with high-risk/hazardous drinking among SMW. However, this research has almost exclusively used cross-sectional designs, limiting the ability to draw conclusions about processes through which sexual minority status affects alcohol use. Longitudinal designs, although very rare in research on alcohol use among SMW, are important for testing mediational mechanisms and necessary to understanding how changes in social determinants impact alcohol use. Aim: To describe the processes and lessons learned in conducting a 20-year longitudinal study focused on alcohol use among SMW. Methods: The Chicago Health and Life Experiences of Women (CHLEW) study includes five waves of data collection (2000–present) with an age and racially/ethnically diverse sample of 815 SMW (ages 18–83) originally recruited in the Chicago Metropolitan Area in Illinois, a midwestern state in the United States (U.S.). Measures and focus have evolved over the course of the study. Results: The CHLEW study is the longest-running and most comprehensive study of SMW’s drinking in the U.S. or elsewhere. Findings reported in more than 50 published manuscripts have contributed to understanding variations in SMW’s risk for hazardous/harmful drinking based on sexual identity, age, race/ethnicity, sex/gender of partner, and many other factors. Conclusions: By describing the process used in conducting this long-term study, its major findings, and the lessons learned, we hope to encourage and support other researchers in conducting longitudinal research focused on SMW’s health. Such research is critically important in understanding and ultimately eliminating sexual orientation-related health disparities.

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First Comes Marriage, Then Comes the Election: Macro-level Event Impacts on African American, Latina/x, and White Sexual Minority Women

Cited by 12 publications

References 40 publications

A measure of hypervigilance in LGBTQ-identified individuals.

A measure of hypervigilance in LGBTQ-identified individuals.

“Previous resilience has taught me that I can survive anything:” LGBTQ resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alcohol use among sexual minority women: Methods used and lessons learned in the 20-Year Chicago Health and Life Experiences of Women Study

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