Minority Stress and Mental Health in Italian Bisexual People

• DOI: 10.3390/socsci9040046
• Publication Date: 2020-04-09T18:42:03Z
• Authors: Cristiano Scandurra; Andrea Pennasilico; Concetta Esposito; Fabrizio Mezza; Roberto Vitelli; Vincenzo Bochicchio; Nelson Mauro Mald...; Anna Lisa Amodeo
• Keywords: Minority Stress; Stressor; Stigma

Bisexual people are a strongly stigmatized population experiencing health disparities caused by social stigmatization. The predominant framework helping to understand these and the impact of stigma on mental groups belonging sexual minority identity constitutes stress theory. In Italy, studies assessing this model in bisexual populations very limited. Within framework, current study aimed at 381 Italian individuals (62 men 319 women) effects anti-bisexual discrimination, proximal stressors (i.e., anticipated binegativity, internalized outness), resilience psychological distress. results suggested that only discrimination binegativity were positively associated with distress, was negatively issues. Furthermore, mediated relationship between problems. No moderating effect found. This is first have thoroughly applied people, providing clinicians researchers an outline associations stress, stigma, resilience, distress within population.