Gay and bisexual men might face unique, status-based competitive pressures given that their social and sexual relationships often occur with other men, who are known to compete for social and sexual gain. In a multistage study, we delineated intraminority gay community stress theory-that status-focused elements of the gay community challenge the mental health of gay and bisexual men. We first created a measure of gay community stress with items derived from qualitative interviewing (n = 49); calculated its psychometric properties, including 1-year temporal stability (n = 937); and confirmed its structural stability in distinct samples (n = 96; n = 1,413). Being stressed by perceiving the gay community's focus on sex, focus on status, focus on competition, and exclusion of diversity predicted gay and bisexual men's mental health over-and-above a comprehensive battery of traditional minority stressors (β = .17, p < .01) and mediated the association between one's gay community status and mental health. To examine the impact of individual differences in status concerns (i.e., about masculinity, attractiveness, and wealth) on gay and bisexual men's feelings of within-community exclusion, a series of experiments manipulated (a) the sexual orientation (gay vs. heterosexual) of rejecters (n = 103), (b) the social status of gay rejecters (n = 83), and (c) whether rejection from gay and bisexual rejecters was status-based or nonstatus-based (n = 252). Overall, these experiments provide partial support for the possibility that gay and bisexual men's status concerns underlie their experience of gay community stress. Together, these studies advance psychological and sociological accounts of gay and bisexual men's mental health beyond minority stress theory, with implications for intervention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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性、地位、竞争和排斥：来自同性恋社区内部的少数族裔压力以及男同性恋和双性恋男性的心理健康。

同性恋和双性恋男性可能面临独特的、基于地位的竞争压力，因为他们的社会和性关系经常与其他男性发生，而这些男性以争夺社会和性利益而闻名。在一项多阶段研究中，我们描绘了少数族裔同性恋社区压力理论——同性恋社区中以地位为中心的元素挑战了男同性恋和双性恋男性的心理健康。我们首先使用来自定性访谈的项目（n = 49）创建了一个衡量同性恋社区压力的方法；计算其心理测量特性，包括 1 年时间稳定性（n = 937）；并证实了其在不同样品中的结构稳定性（n = 96；n = 1,413）。通过感知同性恋社区对性、地位、竞争和排斥多样性的关注而感到压力，这预示着同性恋和双性恋男性 s 心理健康超越了传统的少数压力源（β = .17，p < .01）的综合电池，并调节了一个人的同性恋社区地位与心理健康之间的关联。为了检查身份关注（即关于男性气质、吸引力和财富）的个体差异对同性恋和双性恋男性社区内排斥感的影响，一系列实验操纵了 (a) 性取向（同性恋与异性恋）拒绝者的数量（n = 103），（b）同性恋拒绝者的社会地位（n = 83），以及（c）同性恋和双性恋拒绝者的拒绝是基于身份还是非基于身份（n = 252）。总的来说，这些实验部分支持了同性恋和双性恋男性的地位问题是他们承受同性恋社区压力的基础的可能性。一起，这些研究在少数压力理论之外推进了对男同性恋和双性恋男性心理健康的心理学和社会学解释，并对干预产生了影响。（PsycINFO 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。