Numerous studies report childhood affirmation affects adult lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) mental health. Mechanisms underlying this relationship, however, are unclear. Using attachment theory, this study explored relationships among childhood warmth and safeness, self-compassion, personal mastery, and subjective happiness in an adult LGBTQ sample (N = 523). Hypotheses tested contributions of continuous variables to the prediction of adult LGBTQ happiness, and whether self-compassion and personal mastery serially mediated the relationship between childhood affirmation and adult happiness. Results were confirmatory; however findings suggest the primary role of self-compassion as a mediator and that mastery contributed most to the prediction of happiness. Counseling implications are discussed.
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