The effect of mental representation of romantic partner on affect regulation in bisexual women‟s romantic relationships with men and women+: the role of partner gender identity

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An emerging literature on bisexual individuals shows that bi-specific stressors lead adverse psychological and physical health outcomes on bisexual individuals. Romantic relationship involvement is seen as bi-specific stressor provoking life event in bisexual people. Yet, adult attachment studies with heterosexual samples yield that imagery or physical contact with romantic partner as an attachment figure enhances one‟s affect regulation in the face of external or internal stressors. The current study, for the first time,provides an investigation of whether priming the mental representation of romantic partner facilitates the recovery fromnegative affect after exposure to a negative autobiographical memory and whether partner gender identity has an effect onthe provision of affect recoveryin the sample of bisexual women.Ninety-six bisexual women are studied under two groups: bisexual women in a relationship with men partners and bisexual women in a relationship with women+ partners. Results indicated that primingromantic partner following an upsetting autobiographical memory recall significantly eliminated the increased negative affect compared to priming acquaintance in both groups. Bisexual women with women+ partners had significantly better negative affect recovery than bisexual women with men partners. Lastly, effect of partner gender identity became nonsignificant aftercontrolling for Identity Uncertainty. Findings showed that romantic partner can provide affect regulation and may act as a protective factor in order to enhance psychological well-being in bisexual womenregardless of the increased bi-specific stressors with relationship involvement. The implicationsof the findings on affect regulation, partner gender identity, mental health of bisexual women arediscussed.

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Bisexual women, Romantic relationship, Partner gender identity, Affect regulation, Autobiographical memory

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İ. Uğurluoğlu, “The effect of mental representation of romantic partner on affect regulation in bisexual women‟s romantic relationships with men and women+: the role of partner gender identity,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2021.