The laboratory is proud to announce the publication of a new article in Current Sexual Health Reports on minority stress and sexual wellbeing in sexual and gender minority adults.
This article is the result of the work of several members and former members of our team, namely Marie-Michèle Paquette (Ph.D. R/I student), Jessica Herrera-Roberge (Ph.D. R/I student), Silke Jacmin-Park (Ph.D. R/I student), Stéphanie Couture, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Université Laval), Alice Girouard, Ph.D. (Post-doctoral student, Couples & Sexual Health Laboratory, Dalhousie University) and Sophie Bergeron, Ph.D. (Director, Laboratoire d’étude de la santé sexuelle and Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal).
Entitled How Does Minority Stress Relate to Sexual Wellbeing? A Scoping Review, this article reviews the empirical literature of the last five years concerning how minority stress might be associated with sexual wellbeing in adults.
The results suggest that the presence of increased minority stress tends to be associated with lower sexual wellbeing, although these findings remain mixed. This highlights the importance of individual contexts and experiences, which can have a positive or negative impact on sexual wellbeing.
The full article is available here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-024-00398-x
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