First Advisor

Rings, Jeffrey

Second Advisor

Parnell, Kenneth

First Committee Member

Anderson, Jacqueline

Second Committee Member

Kahlo, Danielle

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Document Type

Dissertation

Date Created

8-2024

Department

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, Applied Psychology and Counselor Education, APCE Student Work

Abstract

The primary purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of gender minority stress and its connection with wellness among trans and gender diverse adults. Trans and gender diverse (TGD) individuals experience unique and pervasive stress due to living within a society that is hostile towards their gender identities. They are also more than their experiences of gender minority stress. Better understanding TGD wellness is crucial for both researchers and counseling psychologists as a means of holistically viewing TGD communities. The present study examined the impacts that gender minority stress had on the overall wellness among a sample of TGD adults (n = 198). A hierarchical linear regression and mediation analysis were conducted to assess if each of the individual external and internal gender minority stress constructs were significantly related to overall wellness, if each of the cumulative effects for both external and internal gender minority stress constructs accounted for significant variance of overall wellness, and if internal gender minority stress mediated the relationship between external gender minority stress and overall wellness. Results of the analyses showed that each of the individual external and internal gender minority stress constructs were significantly negatively related with overall wellness, that each of the cumulative effects for both external and internal gender minority stress constructs significantly accounted for variance in overall wellness, and that internal gender minority stress fully mediated the relationship between external gender minority stress and overall wellness. These results provide a clearer understanding of the relationship between the gender minority

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Extent

218 pages

Local Identifiers

Landers_unco_0161D_11272.pdf

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