Minority Stress or Gender Shift? Testing the Effect of Sexual Orientation on Psychological Distress Among Hong Kong Adolescents.
The minority stress theory predicts that sexual minorities experience more psychological distress than heterosexual individuals because of stigma-related stress. However, the gender shift theory argues that sexual-minority females experience less distress than heterosexual females because the former...
| Publicado en: | Sexuality & Culture Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 428 - 452 |
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