The Role of Individual Discrimination and Structural Stigma in the Mental Health of Sexual Minority Youth.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Sexual minority (SM) youth experience a greater mental health burden compared with their heterosexual peers. This study aimed to characterize mental health disparities among SM compared with non-SM youth, test main and interactive associations of SM identity and stressors targeting SM youth at the individual level (interpersonal SM discrimination) and structural level (state-level structural SM stigma) with youth mental health, and explore the contribution of interpersonal SM discrimination to the mental health burden of SM youth.

Method

Participants included 11,622 youth (ages 9-13; 47.6% assigned female at birth) from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Linear mixed-effects models tested main and interactive associations of SM identity, inter

SUBMITTER: Gordon JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10770287 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature