Interpersonal Contributors to Depression in Sexual Minority Adolescents: An Examination of Exposure to Acute Stressors and Neural Reactivity to Interpersonal Emotional Images.

ABSTRACT: Sexual minority (SM) adolescents are at a higher risk of depression compared to their heterosexual peers, indicating a need for multimethod research to identify risk and resilience factors for SM youth. In a sample of 165 adolescents who completed an interview-based acute stress exposure assessment and an interpersonal emotional images task to elicit the late positive potential (LPP) derived from electroencephalogram (EEG), we aimed to investigate (1) differences in the severity of acute interpersonal stress exposure (including peer and family stressors) and depressive symptoms in SM relative to heterosexual adolescents, (2) neural responses to interpersonal emotional images as moderators of the association between SM identity and depressive symptoms, and (3) whether these interactions per

SUBMITTER: Long Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12673233 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature