APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Visual Conformity and Substance Abuse Among Transgender People: The Mediating Role of Discrimination and Gender Non-Affirmation
- Anastasia Poponina
University of California - Irvine (Department of Psychological Science) - Cameron Wiley
University of California, Irvine - Darcianne Watanabe
University of California, Irvine - Vida Pourmand
University of California, Irvine - DeWayne Williams
University of California, Irvine
Abstract
Discrimination and gender non-affirmation mediate the negative relationship between visual conformity and substance abuse among transgender/GNC people. This suggests that transgender/GNC people experience poor health outcomes due to mistreatment from others, and not because such outcomes are inherent to being transgender/GNC.
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