TY - JOUR
T1 - Adolescent Romance and Emotional Health in the United States
T2 - Beyond Binaries
AU - Russell, Stephen T.
AU - Consolacion, Theodora B.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research described in this article was supported by a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award to Stephen T. Russell. We thank Anne K. Driscoll for her methodological assistance. This research is basedondatafromtheAddHealthproject,aprogramprojectdesigned by J. Richard Udry (PI) and Peter Bearman and funded by Grant P01–HD31921 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with cooperative funding participation by the National Cancer Institute; the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; the National Institute of Drug Abuse; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; the National Institute of Mental Health; the National Institute of Nursing Research; the Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH); the Office of Behavior and Social Science Research, NIH; the Office of the Director, NIH; the Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH; the Office of Population Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS; the Office of Minority Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS; the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS; and the National Science Foundation. Persons interested in obtaining data files from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health should contact Carolina Population Center, 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516–3997. E-mail: addhealth@unc.edu Requests for reprints should be sent to Stephen T. Russell, Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616–8523. E-mail: strussell@ucdavis.edu
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Research on adolescent same-sex sexuality has focused almost exclusively on risk in the lives of self-identified lesbians, gays, and bisexuals. The attention to same-sex self identity may obscure heterogeneity in same-sex romance (attractions and relationships) and thus may inaccurately characterize sexual-minority youth as more different than heterosexual youth in terms of emotional health risk. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine the nexus of romantic attractions and relationships among contemporary U.S. adolescents, linking experiences of romance to indicators of emotional health. We conclude that broadening the scope of inquiry beyond binaries of identity (that is, gay vs. straight) provides the opportunity to more fully understand the health and well-being of all adolescents.
AB - Research on adolescent same-sex sexuality has focused almost exclusively on risk in the lives of self-identified lesbians, gays, and bisexuals. The attention to same-sex self identity may obscure heterogeneity in same-sex romance (attractions and relationships) and thus may inaccurately characterize sexual-minority youth as more different than heterosexual youth in terms of emotional health risk. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine the nexus of romantic attractions and relationships among contemporary U.S. adolescents, linking experiences of romance to indicators of emotional health. We conclude that broadening the scope of inquiry beyond binaries of identity (that is, gay vs. straight) provides the opportunity to more fully understand the health and well-being of all adolescents.
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U2 - 10.1207/S15374424JCCP3204_2
DO - 10.1207/S15374424JCCP3204_2
M3 - Article
C2 - 14710458
AN - SCOPUS:0242679694
SN - 1537-4416
VL - 32
SP - 499
EP - 508
JO - Journal of clinical child psychology
JF - Journal of clinical child psychology
IS - 4
ER -