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The Impact of Gay-Related Stressor on Mental Health of Gay Men

Abstract

Gay men confront gay-related stressor that are caused by homosexual orientation in heterogeneous orientation centered society. Gay men are exposed chronically to gay-related stressor because sexual orientation are fixed. 85 gay men that participated in gay human right organization, gay community were studied to examine the impact of gay-related stressor on mental health of gay men. The result from multiple regression showed that important predictors were differentiated according to mental health feature. While AIDS related stressor was the most important predictor of anxiety and somatization, financial stressor was the most important predictor of depression. Gay-related stressor explained the variance of anxiety and somatization than depression.

keywords
homosexual orientation gay-related stressor, AIDS-related stressor, mental health, homosexual orientation gay-related stressor, AIDS-related stressor, mental health, 동성애, 동성애 관련 스트레스, 에이즈 관련 스트레스, 정신건강

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