Mindfulness as a coping strategy for bias-based school victimization among Latina/o sexual minority youth.

Toomey, Russell B.; Anhalt, Karla

doi:10.1037/sgd0000192

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“…That is, associations between sexual orientation-based coping and depressive symptoms and self-esteem were only significant for those with low levels of mindfulness. 37 Another study exploring the relationship between mindful attention, self-esteem, and psychological QoL in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender participants (n=177) found that mindful attention and self-esteem moderated the relationship between perceived stress and psychological QoL. Specifically, although mindful acceptance buffered the relationship between stress and psychological QoL at low-to-moderate levels of stress, it did not have an impact at higher levels of stress.…”

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Addressing Diversity in Mindfulness Research on Health: A Narrative Review using the ADDRESSING Framework

Chin

Anyanso

Greeson

2019

CRMJ

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INTRODUCTIONOver the past 5 years, the number of Americans practicing meditation has more than tripled, rising from 4% of adults in 2010 to 14% in 2017. 1 This rise is likely related to the increasing focus on preventive and integrative approaches to healthcare in the United States, such as meditation, whih is often used to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and pain in conjunction with improving health and well-being. 2 While many different meditative practices exist, mindfulness meditation emphasizes nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment. Although substantial research supports mindfulness-related improvements in patient-reported mental and physical health, 3 the replication crisis in social science and medicine, alongside numerous methodological concerns about extant mindfulness studies, 4 invites questions regarding the generalizability of research on the reported health-promoting effects of mindfulness meditation and mindfulness as an innate, dispositional quality (trait mindfulness). Moreover, as much of mindfulness research over-samples middle-to-upper class, Caucasian, women, 5 the extent to which results generalize to a broader, more diverse population is unclear. One possible reason for this overrepresentation could be that this population has the time and/or finances to participate in mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) from which researchers draw samples. In 2001, Dr. Pamela Hays published Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice, 6 introducing the ADDRESSING framework as a guide to help clinicians better identify and understand the relevant cultural identities of their clients. According to Dr. Hays, the facets of identity include: Age, Developmental and 10 Chin et al.: Addressing Diversity in Mindfulness Research on Health Published by Rowan Digital Works, 2019acquired Disabilities, Religion, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic status, Sexual orientation, Indigenous heritage, National origin, and Gender. This framework allows room for intersectionality between identity facets and does not inherently exclude non-minority individuals. As such, the ADDRESSING framework, with its attention to multiple aspects of identity, provides an effective structure for organizing research published on different populations and identifying 1) which populations are represented and underrepresented in various categories and 2) what is known about underrepresented groups in research. The main purpose of this review, therefore, was to use the ADDRESSING framework to highlight mindfulness research conducted on historically underrepresented groups as both a method to summarize what has been done and to point out gaps for future research. METHODS Wesearched MEDLINE, PsychINFO, and Web of Science through September 2018 using the following combination of keywords: (diverse OR age OR disability OR race OR ethnicity OR Black OR White OR Latino OR Hispanic OR Asian OR gender OR transgender OR sexual orientation OR lesbian OR gay ORLGBT or LGB OR homosexual OR bisexual OR asexual OR socio-economic status OR SES OR low-income...

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Addressing Diversity in Mindfulness Research on Health: A Narrative Review using the ADDRESSING Framework

Chin

Anyanso

Greeson

2019

CRMJ

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“…These findings suggest that while some aspects of someone's identity and culture confer risk in one domain, they may also confer resilience in another domain of an individuals’ life—a complexity that emerges at the interface of ethnic identity and sexual identity, rather than as an additive function of the two. These findings warrant further analysis to understand how coping with discrimination (e.g., Kuper, Coleman, Mustanski, 2014; Toomey & Anhalt, ) and internalized homonegativity intersect and shape each other, as both have been shown to differ across migration and generational status (Morales, ), to impact neurobiological regulation of individuals who belong to multiple marginalized social groups.…”

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Integrating the Neurobiology of Minority Stress with an Intersectionality Framework for LGBTQ-Latinx Populations

Parra

Hastings

2018

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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The comprehensive lived experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals of color remain invisible in neurobiological studies of LGBTQ populations. Models of minority stress posit that LGBTQ and Latinx individuals experience and internalize sexual, ethnic, racial, and gender discrimination, which may adversely impact mental and physical health. However, the current minority stress models predominantly focus on single categorical social identities and do not account for interlocking systems and processes of oppression based on features of sexuality, race, ethnicity, sex, and gender, as explained by an intersectionality framework in feminist theory. Thus, it remains unclear how LGBTQ people of color internalize and navigate multiple cultural, institutional, and societal stressors, and, furthermore, how these sources of stress may affect health and well-being. A potential mechanism for this adverse internalization process is through the effects of stress on neurobiological regulation. This review will apply an intersectionality framework to the examination of how heterosexism, racism, and cissexism, as systems of oppression, create LGBTQ and Latinx lived experiences, and the differential impacts of these inequalities on neurobiological stress regulation. The overarching goal of this manuscript is to advocate for the application of intersectionality theory to advance the ecological validity of biopsychosocial models of multiple-minority stress.

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“…Higher levels of mindfulness protected against the effect of victimization due to sexual orientation but not due to ethnicity on depressive symptoms in the past week among young Latino sexual minority youth in the US ( 28 ). Mindfulness has also been shown to protect against other stressors.…”

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“…Two population-based studies in Europe found that mindfulness scores for select facets differ by sex, age, education, and income ( 24 , 25 ), but there have been no comparisons by sexual orientation to date. Only two recent studies have published mindfulness data on sexual minorities: a national online convenience sample of gay men aged 40 years and over in Australia ( 26 , 27 ) and a national online convenience sample of Latino sexual minority youth aged 14–24 years in the US ( 28 ).…”

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Mindfulness and Other Psycho-Social Resources Protective Against Mental Illness and Suicidality Among Gay Men

Wang¹,

Häusermann

Ambresin³

2018

Front. Psychiatry

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Background: There is considerable evidence of health disparities among gay men characterized by higher levels of stress and distress. Psycho-social resources have been linked to numerous positive health outcomes and shown to act as buffers in the stress-distress pathway.Methods: With data from the 3rd Geneva Gay Men's Health Survey carried out in 2011 using time-space sampling (n = 428), a relatively elaborate profile of 14 psycho-social resources—including mindfulness—is presented. Using their original scores, latent class analysis created an index variable dividing the respondents into meaningful groups. Psycho-social resources—the index variable as well as each resource individually—were then compared to two recent outcomes—i.e., serious mental illness in the past 4 weeks and short-term disability in the past 2 weeks—using a series of logistic regression models, controlling for all other psycho-social resources and socio-demographic confounders. To assess their potential role as buffers, a similar series of logistic regression models were erected using victimization and three outcomes—i.e., major depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt—in the past 12 months.Results: According to the latent class analyses, (1) 5.1% of this sample had a low level of psycho-social resources (i.e., one standard deviation (SD) below the group means), (2) 25.2% a medium-low level, (3) 47.4% a medium level (i.e., at the group means), and (4) 22.2% a high level of psycho-social resources (i.e., one SD above the group means). Psycho-social resources appeared to strongly protect against recent mental morbidity and buffer against the impact of victimization on major depression and suicidality in the past 12 months, reducing the adjusted odds ratios below statistical significance. The explained variance and the individual psycho-social resources which remained independent in the models differed for each outcome.Conclusions: There may be disparities in several psycho-social resources among gay men, and as strong compensatory and protective factors, they may explain in part the well-established disparities in stress and distress in this population. While multiple psycho-social resources should be promoted in this population, gay men under 25 years should receive particular attention as all three disparities are most pronounced in this age group.

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Mindfulness as a coping strategy for bias-based school victimization among Latina/o sexual minority youth.

Cited by 46 publications

References 65 publications

Addressing Diversity in Mindfulness Research on Health: A Narrative Review using the ADDRESSING Framework

Addressing Diversity in Mindfulness Research on Health: A Narrative Review using the ADDRESSING Framework

Integrating the Neurobiology of Minority Stress with an Intersectionality Framework for LGBTQ-Latinx Populations

Mindfulness and Other Psycho-Social Resources Protective Against Mental Illness and Suicidality Among Gay Men

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