Minority stress processes represent clear determinants of social anxiety among sexual minority populations. Yet sources of resilience to social anxiety are less explored as are stressors experienced from within sexual minority communities (i.e., intraminority stress). Based on minority stress theory and the psychological mediation framework, we hypothesized that experiences of discrimination and intraminority stress would predict proximal minority stress processes, including internalized homonegativity, sexual concealment behavior, and rejection sensitivity, as well as two resilience factors—sense of coherence and LGBTQ community connectedness—to explain social anxiety among sexual minority individuals. Self-identified cisgender sexual minority women (n = 245) and men (n = 256) residing in the Republic of Ireland completed an online survey. Results from a structural equation modeling analysis indicated that the data fit the hypothesized model well for both women and men. For both sexual minority women and men, experiences of discrimination and intraminority stress were indirectly associated with social anxiety via two paths (1) increased rejection sensitivity and (2) reduced sense of coherence. Intraminority stress was indirectly associated with social anxiety via increased concealment behavior for sexual minority men only. Experiences of discrimination were indirectly associated with social anxiety via a sequential pathway through increased proximal minority stress (i.e., concealment behavior and internalized homonegativity), and reduced LGBTQ community connectedness solely among sexual minority women. Findings are discussed in terms of implications for future research and clinical practice with sexual minority individuals who suffer from social anxiety.

少数群体压力过程代表了性少数群体中社交焦虑的明确决定因素。然而，与性少数群体内部经历的压力源（即少数群体内部压力）一样，对社交焦虑的适应力来源的探索较少。基于少数群体压力理论和心理中介框架，我们假设歧视和少数群体内部压力的经历可以预测近端的少数群体压力过程，包括内化的同质性、性隐瞒行为和拒绝敏感性，以及两个弹性因素——连贯感和LGBTQ 社区连通性——解释性少数群体的社交焦虑。自我认同的顺性别性少数女性 ( n  = 245) 和男性 ( n = 256) 居住在爱尔兰共和国完成了在线调查。结构方程建模分析的结果表明，该数据对女性和男性都很好地拟合了假设模型。对于性少数女性和男性，歧视和少数群体内部压力的经历通过两条途径与社交焦虑间接相关：（1）拒绝敏感性增加和（2）一致性感降低。少数族群内压力通过增加性少数男性的隐瞒行为与社交焦虑间接相关。歧视经历通过增加近端少数群体压力（即隐瞒行为和内化同性）的连续途径与社交焦虑间接相关，并减少了仅在性少数群体女性中的 LGBTQ 社区联系。