Coping with minority stress: Longitudinal impacts of LGBTQ+ individuals' self-compassionate writings
Document Type
Event
Faculty Mentor
Elizabeth Parks-Stamm
Abstract
Exploring coping interventions for LGBTQ+ individuals with sustained benefits is essential, as stressors such as internal and external stigma threaten mental health outcomes in this population. Previous research on the efficacy of self-compassionate writing interventions is well-established, and we aimed to further explore the impacts of the content of these self-compassionate writings when participants were asked to consider internal stressors (e.g., internalized stigma) versus external stressors (e.g., discrimination from others). The mental and identity wellbeing of LGBTQ+ individuals were assessed before and after participants completed five to ten minutes of self-compassionate writing about either internal or external stressors once a day for five days. This study aimed to assess longitudinal outcomes of this intervention and differences between internal versus external stigma stressor writing focuses. While quantitative results were not significant, interesting qualitative results and pertinent future directions are the main takewaways from this study.
Coping with minority stress: Longitudinal impacts of LGBTQ+ individuals' self-compassionate writings
Exploring coping interventions for LGBTQ+ individuals with sustained benefits is essential, as stressors such as internal and external stigma threaten mental health outcomes in this population. Previous research on the efficacy of self-compassionate writing interventions is well-established, and we aimed to further explore the impacts of the content of these self-compassionate writings when participants were asked to consider internal stressors (e.g., internalized stigma) versus external stressors (e.g., discrimination from others). The mental and identity wellbeing of LGBTQ+ individuals were assessed before and after participants completed five to ten minutes of self-compassionate writing about either internal or external stressors once a day for five days. This study aimed to assess longitudinal outcomes of this intervention and differences between internal versus external stigma stressor writing focuses. While quantitative results were not significant, interesting qualitative results and pertinent future directions are the main takewaways from this study.
