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- Abstract
- Measuring Community Resilience Within the LGBTQ+ Community
- Intersectionality and Barriers to LGBTQ+ Community Resilience
- Current Study
- Method
- Participants
- Procedures
- Measures
- LGBTQ+ Community Resilience and Inequity Scale
- Convergent Validity Variables
- Criterion Validity Variables
- Analytic Strategy
- Results
- Data Cleaning
- Exploratory Factor Analysis
- Confirmatory Factor Analysis
- Validity Testing of the LGBTQ+ CRIS
- Group Differences in LGBTQ+ CRIS Subscales
- Discussion
- Limitations and Future Research
- Implications
- Conclusion
- Appendix A
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Abstract
Access to LGBTQ+ communities helps mitigate the negative impacts of oppression (i.e., community resilience). Due to interlocking systems of oppression, those with multiple marginalized identities may not have equal access to LGBTQ+ community resilience. While published measures assess some aspects of LGBTQ+ community resilience (e.g., connection, belonging, collective identity), no measures to date measure it in a holistic manner while simultaneously measuring experiences of inequity within the LGBTQ+ community. The present study developed and validated the LGBTQ+ Community Resilience and Inequity Scale (LGBTQ+ CRIS). A two-factor structure (i.e., Community Resilience and Community Inequity) demonstrated the best model fit, explained 65.8% of the variance, and was theoretically consistent with existing research on LGBTQ+ community resilience and inequities. Participants’ scores on the final LGBTQ+ CRIS subscales demonstrated moderate to large correlations with other identity constructs, connection with the LGBTQ+ community, racial discrimination, and mental health, as evidence of convergent and criterion validity. The LGBTQ+ CRIS may provide insight into factors that contribute to well-being for marginalized sexual and gender diverse people. Directions for future research and implications for use in community organizations and group settings are discussed.
We developed the LGBTQ+ Community Resilience and Inequity Scale, which assesses experiences of community resilience and experiences of inequity within the LGBTQ+ community. Use of this scale may assist clinicians, researchers, and community-advocacy organizations in examining co-occurring resilience and inequity, and their links to psychosocial health of LGBTQ+ populations.
The broader LGBTQ+ community can be conceptualized as a collectivist community (not bound by physical location) that shares values, characteristics, experiences, and a history of survival and resilience (Parmenter et al., 2020). The LGBTQ+ community has demonstrated resilience across history, embodied by such events as the Stonewall Riots, activism during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and advocacy...