Associations of Timing of Sexual Orientation Developmental Milestones and Other Sexual Minority Stressors with Internalizing Mental Health Symptoms Among Sexual Minority Young Adults

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Sabra L. Katz-Wise
Margaret Rosario
Jerel P. Calzo
Emily A. Scherer
Vishnudas Sarda
S. Bryn Austin
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[1] Boston Children’s Hospital,Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine
[2] Harvard Medical School,Department of Pediatrics
[3] Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health,Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
[4] City University of New York–City College and Graduate Center,Department of Psychology
[5] San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health,Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Science
[6] Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth,Department of Community and Family Medicine
[7] Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School,Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine
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Archives of Sexual Behavior | 2017年 / 46卷
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Sexual orientation; Sexual minority; Minority stress; Victimization; Depression; Anxiety;
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Sexual minorities (mostly heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian/gay) are more likely than heterosexuals to have adverse mental health, which may be related to minority stress. We used longitudinal data from 1461 sexual minority women and men, aged 22–30 years, from Wave 2010 of the Growing Up Today Study, to examine associations between sexual minority stressors and mental health. We hypothesized that sexual minority stressors (earlier timing of sexual orientation developmental milestones categorized into early adolescence, middle adolescence, late adolescence/young adulthood; greater sexual orientation mobility; more bullying victimization) would be positively associated with mental health outcomes (depressive and anxious symptoms). Linear regression models stratified by gender and sexual orientation were fit via generalized estimating equations and controlled for age and race/ethnicity. Models were fit for each stressor predicting each mental health outcome. Reaching sexual minority milestones in early versus middle adolescence was associated with greater depressive and anxious symptoms among lesbians and gay men. Reaching sexual minority milestones in late adolescence/young adulthood versus middle adolescence was associated with greater depressive symptoms among lesbians, but fewer depressive and anxious symptoms among gay men. Greater sexual orientation mobility was associated with greater depressive symptoms among mostly heterosexual women. More bullying victimization was associated with greater depressive symptoms among bisexual women and with greater anxious symptoms among mostly heterosexual women. Sexual minority stressors are associated with adverse mental health among some sexual minority young adults. More research is needed to understand what may be protecting some subgroups from the mental health effects of sexual minority stressors.
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