Measurement of Sexual Behavior Stigma in Cisgender Mexican Sexual Minority Men: Contextual Considerations of Living in Mexico or the United States.

ABSTRACT: We used data from the 2018 and 2019 cycles of the American Men's Internet Survey (AMIS) and the Encuesta de Sexo Entre Hombres (ESEH) (2017) to investigate measurement invariance of a sexual behavior stigma scale among Mexican gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority men (SMM). Employing both a two- and three-group multiple group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA), we established configural invariance of the scale, suggesting a uniform factor pattern structure across Mexican SMM subgroups based on country of origin and country of residence: (1) Mexican SMM in the ESEH dataset (N = 15,015), (2) Mexican SMM born in Mexico in the AMIS data (N = 218), and (3) Mexicans born in the USA in the AMIS data (N = 1606). The three-group MGCFA models, which separated the Mexican SMM in the USA who wer

SUBMITTER: Lee JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12457474 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature