Stigma Toward Consensual Non-Monogamy: Thematic Analysis and Minority Stress
Experienced stigma tended to occur with distress, partly may help explain the link between anticipated and internalized stigma.
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About this source
This pushes us to evaluate agreements, honesty, care, and power rather than ranking relationship structures. Neither monogamy nor non-monogamy guarantees a good relationship. The key boundary is that it cannot establish diagnosis, individual prediction, universal claims, or advice beyond its stated scope..
Why it matters: This source demonstrates that relationship structure alone does not decide care, communication, or satisfaction. It helps readers judge relationships by consent and behavior instead of treating monogamy as the automatic standard.
Purpose and scope
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Study 1 N=372; Study 2 N=383 people in CNM relationships.
Findings or central themes
Experienced stigma was associated with distress, partly statistically mediated by anticipated and internalized stigma.
Strengths
Directly relevant to the library topic and retained with a stable source citation and explicit evidence label.
Limitations
Self-report, cross-sectional associations, and nonprobability samples.
Do not use this source to claim: Do not use this source for diagnosis, individual prediction, universal claims, or advice beyond its stated scope.
Citation and access
Elizabeth A. Mahar, Louis H. Irving, Allison Derovanesian, Abigail Masterson, Gregory D. Webster (2024). Stigma Toward Consensual Non-Monogamy: Thematic Analysis and Minority Stress. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin DOI: 10.1177/01461672221139086
Public abstract
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