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VIDEO DOI: https://doi.org/10.48448/evhq-1z94

technical paper

AAA Annual Meeting 2021

November 18, 2021

Baltimore, United States

Bisexual+ Disclosures: Strategies for "Coming Out" in Intimate Partner Relationships and its Implications for Mental Wellbeing

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decolonization

mental health

ethics

This research study focuses on the strategies, experiences, consequences, and stereotypes that non-monosexual individuals (also known as Bi+) must adopt and/or endure while disclosing (also called "coming out") their sexuality in new intimate partner encounters/relationships and its impact on bi+ mental wellbeing. Although bi+ individuals make up more than half of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, their identity is often rendered invisible, invalid, and/or untrustworthy among both homosexual and heterosexual communities (also called monosexuals). Bi+ as a group are also thought to experience the poorest mental health outcomes in terms of depression, anxiety, overall sense of wellbeing, and internalized bi-negativity in comparison to both monosexual populations. This research will explore how strategies of disclosure or non-disclosure affect the sense of overall wellbeing and self-reported mental wellbeing of bi+ individuals by examining their experiences within the larger LGBTQIA2S+ and heterosexual communities, their chosen disclosure strategies, and intimate/romantic partner encounters

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