2019/04/21 by Richard P. Douglass, Sarah E. Conlin, Ryan D. Duffy · 33 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Eudaimonia #Happiness #Identity (music) #LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy #Lesbian #Meaning (existential) #Minority stress #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Racial and Ethnic Identity Research #Sexual minority #Social psychology #Stressor #Structural equation modeling #Well-being
paper · doi:10.1080/00918369.2019.1600900
published in Journal of Homosexuality 67(11), 1587-1602 (Taylor & Francis)
openalex publication_date 2019/04/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Scholars have recently started to examine how minority stressors are associated with wellbeing outcomes among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people. Such studies have examined mainly hedonic wellbeing, and those that have investigated eudaimonic wellbeing have tended to use composite measures. The present study draws from this literature to examine how minority stressors are associated with a key indicator of eudaimonic wellbeing: life meaning. Drawing from the minority stress model, we examined these associations using structural equation modeling among 266 LGB adults. Expectations of rejection and identity concealment, but not discrimination or internalized homophobia, had significant negative associations with life meaning. Discrimination had negative indirect associations with life meaning via expectations of rejection and concealment. Our results highlight the nuanced relations that exist between minority stressors and life meaning and highlight the need to move beyond composite measures of wellbeing. Implications for clinical practice and directions for research are discussed.