TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality, coping and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual community members
AU - Cramer, Robert J.
AU - Johnson, Jennifer C.
AU - Crosby, James W.
AU - Henderson, Craig E.
AU - La Guardia, Amanda C.
AU - Stroud, Caroline H.
N1 - Funding Information:
Data for this secondary analysis came from the American Psychological Foundation Placek grant awarded to the first and last authors.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - The present study makes one of the first attempts to integrate personality, coping and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community members. Specifically, active (i.e., seeking social support, stopping unpleasant emotions, problem-focused coping/solving, and education/advocacy) and passive (i.e., internalization, substance use, and detachment) coping styles were hypothesized to mediate the association of personality traits and mental health symptoms (i.e., depressive, anxiety and general distress symptoms). Participants consisted of 336 LGB outpatients from an urban community health clinic in the southwestern United States. Results demonstrated that: (1) passive coping mediated the relationship between Neuroticism and mental health symptoms, (2) both active and passive coping mediated the extraversion-mental health symptoms association, and (3) significant mediation emerged via active coping for the association of conscientiousness and mental health symptoms. Implications are discussed for clinical practice with LGB persons, and the integration of personality, coping and mental health theory and research.
AB - The present study makes one of the first attempts to integrate personality, coping and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community members. Specifically, active (i.e., seeking social support, stopping unpleasant emotions, problem-focused coping/solving, and education/advocacy) and passive (i.e., internalization, substance use, and detachment) coping styles were hypothesized to mediate the association of personality traits and mental health symptoms (i.e., depressive, anxiety and general distress symptoms). Participants consisted of 336 LGB outpatients from an urban community health clinic in the southwestern United States. Results demonstrated that: (1) passive coping mediated the relationship between Neuroticism and mental health symptoms, (2) both active and passive coping mediated the extraversion-mental health symptoms association, and (3) significant mediation emerged via active coping for the association of conscientiousness and mental health symptoms. Implications are discussed for clinical practice with LGB persons, and the integration of personality, coping and mental health theory and research.
KW - Coping
KW - Five-factor model
KW - Mental health
KW - Personality
KW - Sexual orientation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2015.10.025
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2015.10.025
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84955317502
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 96
SP - 272
EP - 278
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
ER -
