Disclosing a Sexual Identity Is a Persistent Stressor Throughout the Lives of Sexual Minority Youth That Has Important Implications for Their Mental Health

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dc.creatorMallory, Allen B.
dc.creatorPollitt, Amanda M.
dc.creatorBishop, Meg D.
dc.creatorRussell, Stephen T.
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-21T14:17:35Z
dc.date.available2021-09-21T14:17:35Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionYouth who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual – known collectively as sexual minority youth – experience stress associated with their nonheterosexual identity. Disclosing a sexual minority identity can be stressful and can negatively affect the mental health of sexual minority youth. Former PRC graduate research trainee and current OSU Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar, along with former PRC postdoctoral fellow Amanda Pollitt, current PRC GRA Meg Bishop and PRC faculty scholar Stephen Russell report on one of the first longitudinal studies to explore disclosure stress and depression among sexual minority youth and young adults. They found that high levels of disclosure stress was correlated with higher depression symptoms and that stressful disclosures may matter more for depression symptoms at younger ages.
dc.description.departmentPopulation Research Centeren_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/87954
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/14898
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Texas at Austin Population Research Centeren_US
dc.relation.ispartofPRC Research & Policy Brief Seriesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPRC Research & Policy Brief;6(8)
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectsexual identityen_US
dc.subjectmental healthen_US
dc.titleDisclosing a Sexual Identity Is a Persistent Stressor Throughout the Lives of Sexual Minority Youth That Has Important Implications for Their Mental Healthen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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