Does Outness Function the Same for All Sexual Minority Youth? Testing Its Associations With Different Aspects of Well-Being in a Sample of Youth With Diverse Sexual Identities.

ABSTRACT: While research generally supports that greater outness about one's sexual identity is associated with improved well-being, emerging evidence suggests that outness may have negative consequences for bisexual individuals. Yet, few studies have examined sexual identity as a moderator of the associations between outness and well-being, especially among youth. As such, the role of outness in the mental health of diverse sexual minority youth (including pansexual, queer, questioning, and asexual youth) remains unclear. Thus, we examined how the associations between outness and well-being differed as a function of sexual identity in a sample of sexual minority youth. Using data from the LGBTQ National Teen Study (N = 11,225), we tested sexual identity as a moderator of the associati

SUBMITTER: Renteria R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10593417 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature