TY - JOUR
T1 - Intersections of Racial Discrimination and LGB Victimization for Mental Health
T2 - A Prospective Study of Sexual Minority Youth of Color
AU - Mallory, Allen B.
AU - Russell, Stephen T.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grant, P2CHD042849, Population Research Center, and by grant, T32HD007081, Training Program in Population Studies, both awarded to the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. This research uses data from the Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide among Sexual Minority Youth study, designed by Arnold H. Grossman and Stephen T. Russell, and supported by Award Number R01MH091212 from the National Institute of Mental Health. This research was also supported in part by the National Institute of Mental Health through a grant awarded to Allen B. Mallory grant number F31MH115608. The authors acknowledge generous support for Russell from the Priscilla Pond Flawn Endowment at the University of Texas at Austin.: This manuscript’s data will not be deposited. The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - Sexual minority youth (i.e., lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth; LGB) of color have multiple minoritized identities, and few studies examine the implications of intersectional minority stressors for their prospective mental health. The current study tested three intersectional hypotheses: the additive hypothesis—racial discrimination and LGB victimization are independently associated with mental health; the multiplicative hypothesis—racial discrimination and LGB victimization interact in to exacerbate their negative association with mental health, and the inuring hypothesis—only racial discrimination or LGB victimization is associated with mental health. Data come from a sample of lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth of color (36% Black, 30% Latino, 26% Multi-racial, 4% Native American, and 3% Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander) from two U.S. cities, one in the Northeast (77%) and one in the Southwest, who were between ages 15–24 (M = 19) and surveyed four times over three years spaced nine months apart (N = 476; 38% bisexual; 67% free and reduced lunch; and 49% assigned female at birth). The multiplicative hypothesis was supported for depression symptoms, and the additive hypothesis was supported for suicidal ideation. Intersectional minority stressors undermine the mental health of sexual minority youth of color and warrant further investigation.
AB - Sexual minority youth (i.e., lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth; LGB) of color have multiple minoritized identities, and few studies examine the implications of intersectional minority stressors for their prospective mental health. The current study tested three intersectional hypotheses: the additive hypothesis—racial discrimination and LGB victimization are independently associated with mental health; the multiplicative hypothesis—racial discrimination and LGB victimization interact in to exacerbate their negative association with mental health, and the inuring hypothesis—only racial discrimination or LGB victimization is associated with mental health. Data come from a sample of lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth of color (36% Black, 30% Latino, 26% Multi-racial, 4% Native American, and 3% Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander) from two U.S. cities, one in the Northeast (77%) and one in the Southwest, who were between ages 15–24 (M = 19) and surveyed four times over three years spaced nine months apart (N = 476; 38% bisexual; 67% free and reduced lunch; and 49% assigned female at birth). The multiplicative hypothesis was supported for depression symptoms, and the additive hypothesis was supported for suicidal ideation. Intersectional minority stressors undermine the mental health of sexual minority youth of color and warrant further investigation.
KW - Depression
KW - LGB victimization
KW - Racial discrimination
KW - Sexual orientation
KW - Suicidal ideation
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U2 - 10.1007/s10964-021-01443-x
DO - 10.1007/s10964-021-01443-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 33991275
AN - SCOPUS:85105796560
SN - 0047-2891
VL - 50
SP - 1353
EP - 1368
JO - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
JF - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
IS - 7
ER -