Relationship Quality and Domestic Violence in Women's Same-Sex Relationships: The Role of Minority Stress

Psychology of Women Quarterly - Tập 29 Số 3 - Trang 258-269 - 2005
Kimberly F. Balsam1, Dawn M. Szymanski2
1Department of Psychology, University of Washington
2Division of Counseling and Family Therapy, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Tóm tắt

Despite a large body of literature addressing relationship quality and domestic violence in women's same-sex relationships, few studies have empirically examined how stress specific to living as a lesbian or bisexual woman might correlate with these relationship variables. Degree of outness, internalized homophobia, lifetime and recent experiences of discrimination, butch/femme identity, relationship quality, and lifetime and recent experiences of domestic violence were assessed in a sample of 272 predominantly European American lesbian and bisexual women. Lesbian and bisexual women were found to be comparable on most relationship variables. In bivariate analyses, minority stress variables (internalized homophobia and discrimination) were associated with lower relationship quality and both domestic violence perpetration and victimization. Outness and butch/femme identity were largely unrelated to relationship variables. Path analysis revealed that relationship quality fully mediated the relationship between internalized homophobia and recent domestic violence.

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Psychology of Women Quarterly

Tập 29 Số 3

258-269

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