TY - JOUR
T1 - Spirituality, self-compassion, and anxiety among sexual minority men
T2 - a longitudinal mediation analysis
AU - Lassiter, Jonathan Mathias
AU - O’Garro-Moore, Jared K.
AU - Anwar, Kainaat
AU - Smallwood, Stacy W.
AU - Burnett-Zeigler, Inger E.
AU - Stepleman, Lara
AU - Sizemore, K. Marie
AU - Grov, Christian
AU - Rendina, H. Jonathon
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Institute on Drug Abuse: [grant number R01-DA036466]. The One Thousand Strong study was funded by a research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01-DA036466, MPIs: Christian Grov, H. Jonathon Rendina, & Jeffrey T. Parsons). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of other members of the One Thousand Strong Study Team (Jeffrey Parsons, Mark Pawson, Ruben Jimenez, Kendell Doyle, Brian Salfas, Brett Millar, Raymond Moody, and Thomas Whitfield) as well as Dr. Jeffrey Schulden at NIDA and all of our study participants who volunteered their time.
Funding Information:
The One Thousand Strong study was funded by a research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01-DA036466, MPIs: Christian Grov, H. Jonathon Rendina, & Jeffrey T. Parsons). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of other members of the One Thousand Strong Study Team (Jeffrey Parsons, Mark Pawson, Ruben Jimenez, Kendell Doyle, Brian Salfas, Brett Millar, Raymond Moody, and Thomas Whitfield) as well as Dr. Jeffrey Schulden at NIDA and all of our study participants who volunteered their time.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Background and Objective: Research related to anxiety among sexual minority men (SMM) typically focuses on risk factors. It has seldom examined factors that may be associated with lower levels of anxiety. This gap in the literature represents an opportunity to explore positive psychological factors that may be related to lower levels of anxiety among this group. Spirituality and self-compassion are two positive psychological factors that have been associated with reduced anxiety in general samples but have been understudied among SMM. This study aimed to determine the longitudinal associations between spirituality, self-compassion, and anxiety. Design and Methods: Guided by an Afrocentric psychological framework, we conducted a secondary quantitative analysis with data from a racially and ethnically diverse sample of 697 U.S. SMM. Results: Utilizing Hayes PROCESS Macro Model 4, we found that spirituality at baseline was positively associated with self-compassion at baseline, which in turn was inversely associated with anxiety at 12-month follow-up. Conclusions: Overall, our findings provide evidence that spirituality and self-compassion are two positive psychological factors that are inversely associated with anxiety among SMM.
AB - Background and Objective: Research related to anxiety among sexual minority men (SMM) typically focuses on risk factors. It has seldom examined factors that may be associated with lower levels of anxiety. This gap in the literature represents an opportunity to explore positive psychological factors that may be related to lower levels of anxiety among this group. Spirituality and self-compassion are two positive psychological factors that have been associated with reduced anxiety in general samples but have been understudied among SMM. This study aimed to determine the longitudinal associations between spirituality, self-compassion, and anxiety. Design and Methods: Guided by an Afrocentric psychological framework, we conducted a secondary quantitative analysis with data from a racially and ethnically diverse sample of 697 U.S. SMM. Results: Utilizing Hayes PROCESS Macro Model 4, we found that spirituality at baseline was positively associated with self-compassion at baseline, which in turn was inversely associated with anxiety at 12-month follow-up. Conclusions: Overall, our findings provide evidence that spirituality and self-compassion are two positive psychological factors that are inversely associated with anxiety among SMM.
KW - Anxiety
KW - black/Afrocentric psychology
KW - gay men
KW - mediation
KW - self-compassion
KW - spirituality
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U2 - 10.1080/10615806.2022.2033235
DO - 10.1080/10615806.2022.2033235
M3 - Article
C2 - 35114866
AN - SCOPUS:85124365182
SN - 1061-5806
VL - 36
SP - 229
EP - 240
JO - Anxiety, Stress and Coping
JF - Anxiety, Stress and Coping
IS - 2
ER -
