Joanne
Ji
How Does LGBTQ+ Stigma “Get Under the Skin?”: A Systematic Review and Update on the Psychological Mediation Framework
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Joanne Ji, Nathan Hollinsaid, Mark Hatzenbuehler
Date Created:
2025-01-01
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The psychological mediation framework posits that LGBTQ+ outcomes among LGBTQ+ individuals. Based on our preliminary individuals’ experiences of stigma “get under the skin” by results, most studies have provided full or partial support for elevating cognitive (e.g., rumination), affective (e.g., emotion the key tenets of the framework, with consistent evidence of dysregulation), and social (e.g., isolation) risk factors for mediation through rumination, emotion dysregulation, coping negative health outcomes (Hatzenbuehler, 2009). Since its motives, and social support. We have also uncovered several introduction over 15 years ago, this framework has guided mediators not originally proposed by the framework, including research and intervention efforts to understand and alleviate the hypervigilance, shame, self-criticism, perceived burdensomeness, consequences of stigma for LGBTQ+ populations. Despite the and thwarted belongingness. However, this evidence relies framework’s considerable influence, no comprehensive synthesis heavily on cross-sectional designs and convenience samples, of the empirical evidence supporting it has been conducted. To limiting causal inference and generalizability. Findings from address this gap, we systematically identified almost 3,000 studiesour review suggest that psychological interventions adapted for citing the psychological mediation framework and extracted LGBTQ+populationsmaybenefitfromaddressingabroadersetof data from 192 testing universal psychological processes as mechanisms than those considered to date. Future research should mediators of associations between stigma and a range of adverse prioritize longitudinal designs with population-based samples to psychological, behavioral, physical, relational, and other health test the psychological mediation framework more rigorously. American Mass Incarceration in Comparative and Historical Perspective Andrew Kang, Adaner Usmani Harvard College | Dunster House | Social Studies & Statistics | 2027 The unique phenomenon of American mass incarceration has Through a defense of a rational choice theory of crime over been widely studied, with extensive scholarship identifying and liberal, conservative, therapeutic, and cultural explanations, we analyzing histories of court overreaction and the War on Drugs. contend that modern capitalist states have largely relied upon This literature has richly documented the scale and consequences three causal levers to reduce crime: welfare, policing capacity, of mass incarceration, but fewer studies have focused on the and punishment severity. American mass incarceration is a causal origins of the phenomenon in comparative and historical consequence of comparative overreliance on punishment severity perspective. WhileitistruethattheUnitedStateshasoverpunished and underreliance on welfare and policing capacity. We suggest compared to its peers in the past twenty-five years, at 1.3 times tthis is due to America’s high land-to-labor ratio, legacies of punishmentrateoftherestofthedevelopedworld,itshomiciderate slavery and Jim Crow, a racially-divided working class, and is5.7timeshigher. Analysisofcrimeanditsrootcausesarecentral decentralization of the means of state violence. Finally, we discuss to understanding what distinguishes the American incarceration what is to be done to reduce the social harms, particularly for rate from that of other wealthy countries. minoritized and low-income communities, of both crime and mass incarceration. 16 Build Learning through Inquiry in the Social Sciences TheShapeofCollectiveBargainingAgreementsAcrossUniversitiesandWork Groups Amann Mahajan, Xiaowen Shapiro-Shi, Richard Freeman Harvard College | Dunster House | Social Studies | 2028 Union contracts, or collective bargaining agreements, enshrine to analyze the number of words dedicated to specific contract worker protections across a multitude of fronts. Yet these provisions and the strength or intensity of the language in question. documents vary vastly in their contents and enforceability. Our Our model will pinpoint worker priorities beyond bread-and-butter objective is to quantify key differences between CBAs on hot- economic articles and quantify factors resulting in union contracts button bargaining-table issues in higher education, among them more favorable to workers. Making these distinctions will help union security, wages and compensation, non-discrimination, negotiators adapt bargaining strategies and coordinate contract and international worker rights. Our analysis is twofold: we enforcement. We hope to build upon these results to model examine CBAs across work groups within a given university, and the diffusion of particular contract clauses across union contracts across universities within a given work group. We will identify within a given university, and across universities within a given several variables differentiating the chosen institutions, includingork group. At what point does a right become an industry funding sources and national union affiliates. Our team will then standard — and how do we quantify an “industry standard”?
Abstract:
The psychological mediation framework posits that LGBTQ+ outcomes among LGBTQ+ individuals. Based on our preliminary individuals’ experiences of stigma “get under the skin” by results, most studies have provided full or partial support for elevating cognitive (e.g., rumination), affective (e.g., emotion the key tenets of the framework, with consistent evidence of dysregulation), and social (e.g., isolation) risk factors for mediation through rumination, emotion dysregulation, coping negative health outcomes (Hatzenbuehler, 2009). Since its motives, and social support. We have also uncovered several introduction over 15 years ago, this framework has guided mediators not originally proposed by the framework, including research and intervention efforts to understand and alleviate the hypervigilance, shame, self-criticism, perceived burdensomeness, consequences of stigma for LGBTQ+ populations. Despite the and thwarted belongingness. However, this evidence relies framework’s considerable influence, no comprehensive synthesis heavily on cross-sectional designs and convenience samples, of the empirical evidence supporting it has been conducted. To limiting causal inference and generalizability. Findings from address this gap, we systematically identified almost 3,000 studiesour review suggest that psychological interventions adapted for citing the psychological mediation framework and extracted LGBTQ+populationsmaybenefitfromaddressingabroadersetof data from 192 testing universal psychological processes as mechanisms than those considered to date. Future research should mediators of associations between stigma and a range of adverse prioritize longitudinal designs with population-based samples to psychological, behavioral, physical, relational, and other health test the psychological mediation framework more rigorously. American Mass Incarceration in Comparative and Historical Perspective Andrew Kang, Adaner Usmani Harvard College | Dunster House | Social Studies & Statistics | 2027 The unique phenomenon of American mass incarceration has Through a defense of a rational choice theory of crime over been widely studied, with extensive scholarship identifying and liberal, conservative, therapeutic, and cultural explanations, we analyzing histories of court overreaction and the War on Drugs. contend that modern capitalist states have largely relied upon This literature has richly documented the scale and consequences three causal levers to reduce crime: welfare, policing capacity, of mass incarceration, but fewer studies have focused on the and punishment severity. American mass incarceration is a causal origins of the phenomenon in comparative and historical consequence of comparative overreliance on punishment severity perspective. WhileitistruethattheUnitedStateshasoverpunished and underreliance on welfare and policing capacity. We suggest compared to its peers in the past twenty-five years, at 1.3 times tthis is due to America’s high land-to-labor ratio, legacies of punishmentrateoftherestofthedevelopedworld,itshomiciderate slavery and Jim Crow, a racially-divided working class, and is5.7timeshigher. Analysisofcrimeanditsrootcausesarecentral decentralization of the means of state violence. Finally, we discuss to understanding what distinguishes the American incarceration what is to be done to reduce the social harms, particularly for rate from that of other wealthy countries. minoritized and low-income communities, of both crime and mass incarceration. 16 Build Learning through Inquiry in the Social Sciences TheShapeofCollectiveBargainingAgreementsAcrossUniversitiesandWork Groups Amann Mahajan, Xiaowen Shapiro-Shi, Richard Freeman Harvard College | Dunster House | Social Studies | 2028 Union contracts, or collective bargaining agreements, enshrine to analyze the number of words dedicated to specific contract worker protections across a multitude of fronts. Yet these provisions and the strength or intensity of the language in question. documents vary vastly in their contents and enforceability. Our Our model will pinpoint worker priorities beyond bread-and-butter objective is to quantify key differences between CBAs on hot- economic articles and quantify factors resulting in union contracts button bargaining-table issues in higher education, among them more favorable to workers. Making these distinctions will help union security, wages and compensation, non-discrimination, negotiators adapt bargaining strategies and coordinate contract and international worker rights. Our analysis is twofold: we enforcement. We hope to build upon these results to model examine CBAs across work groups within a given university, and the diffusion of particular contract clauses across union contracts across universities within a given work group. We will identify within a given university, and across universities within a given several variables differentiating the chosen institutions, includingork group. At what point does a right become an industry funding sources and national union affiliates. Our team will then standard — and how do we quantify an “industry standard”?
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Harvard / Harvard College | Cabot House | Government | 2028 / 2025
Topics:
framework, psychological, social, incarceration, contract, lgbtq, mediation, mass, union, acros, stigma, american
