Queer Asian Americans' intracommunity racism distress and mental health: Effects of social resources over time.

IF 2.4 2区心理学 Q1 ETHNIC STUDIES

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-10 DOI:10.1037/cdp0000780

Eddie S K Chong, Yiyang Zhang, Han Chen, Colleen A Kase, Jonathan J Mohr

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Abstract

Objectives: Queer Asian Americans encounter intersectional stressors due to their multiple minoritized statuses, which can increase the risk of mental health problems. Some research has suggested that social resources, including family acceptance of sexual orientation and general social integration, have the potential to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people of color from the harmful impacts of these minority stressors. However, most studies have been cross-sectional, and few have examined the buffering effects of social resources specifically for queer Asian Americans. The present study addresses these gaps by testing whether family acceptance and social integration can buffer the concurrent and prospective links between racism distress within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities and mental health among queer Asian Americans.

Method: A sample of 227 queer Asian Americans in the United States and Canada (M_age = 24.85, SD = 6.30) completed online surveys twice, with an 8-month interval between assessments.

Results: Findings revealed unique contributions of social integration and family acceptance to mental health. Specifically, in concurrent analyses, the negative link between racism distress and mental health was present only for queer Asian Americans with low-to-moderate (but not high) levels of social integration. In longitudinal analyses, the link weakened as family acceptance levels at Time 1 increased.

Conclusions: The findings underscore the significance of social resources from peers and family in counteracting detrimental health impacts created by intersecting minority stressors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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目的：亚裔酷儿由于其多重少数族裔身份而面临交叉压力源，这可能会增加心理健康问题的风险。一些研究表明，社会资源，包括家庭对性取向的接受和一般的社会融合，有可能保护有色人种的女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、变性人和酷儿，使他们免受这些少数群体压力源的有害影响。然而，大多数研究都是横向的，很少有人专门研究社会资源对亚裔酷儿的缓冲作用。本研究通过测试家庭接受度和社会融合是否可以缓冲同性恋、双性恋、变性人和酷儿群体中的种族主义痛苦与亚裔酷儿心理健康之间的同时和未来的联系来解决这些差距。方法：以美国和加拿大的227名亚裔酷儿为样本（Mage = 24.85, SD = 6.30），完成两次在线调查，每次调查间隔8个月。结果：研究结果揭示了社会融合和家庭接纳对心理健康的独特贡献。具体来说，在同时进行的分析中，种族主义困扰与心理健康之间的负相关仅存在于社会融合程度中低（但不高）的酷儿亚裔美国人身上。在纵向分析中，随着时间1的家庭接受水平的增加，这种联系减弱了。结论：研究结果强调了来自同伴和家庭的社会资源在抵消由交叉的少数民族压力源造成的有害健康影响方面的重要性。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology Multiple-

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5.90

自引率

6.10%

发文量

101

期刊介绍： Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology seeks to publish theoretical, conceptual, research, and case study articles that promote the development of knowledge and understanding, application of psychological principles, and scholarly analysis of social–political forces affecting racial and ethnic minorities.