Stigma, social context, and mental health: Lesbian and gay couples across the transition to adoptive parenthood.
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Stigma, social context, and mental health: lesbian and gay couples across the transition to adoptive parenthood.
This is the first study to examine change in depression and anxiety across the first year of adoptive parenthood in same-sex couples (90 couples: 52 lesbian, 38 gay male). Given that sexual minorities uniquely contend with sexual orientation-related stigma, this study examined how both internalized and enacted forms of stigma affect the mental health of lesbians and gay men during the transitio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Counseling Psychology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1939-2168,0022-0167
DOI: 10.1037/a0021684