Influence of Social Support on Gay Men Living with HIV

A Trait‐Interpersonal Analysis of Suicide Proneness Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Members

“…Especially in light of existing empirical data showing perceived burdensomeness accounts for some differences in suicidal ideation among LGB persons (Hill & Pettit, ), these interpersonal cognitions may possess unique qualities germane to LGB community‐specific social support occurrences. For example, a dense literature suggests that LGB persons often experience a loss of traditional sources of social support (e.g., family‐of‐origin, traditional religious communities; e.g., Edwards, ; Ganzevoort, van der Laan, & Olsman, ). Thus, high neuroticism, low extraversion (i.e., high introversion), or low agreeableness (i.e., those FFM traits linked with IPTS cognitions and suicide in mediation results) may contribute to, or exacerbate, the loss of support, inducing entrenched thoughts of thwarted belongingness or perceived burdensomeness, and resulting in suicidality.…”

How Have Other Journals Compared to “The Top Seven” Journals in Family Social Science with Respect to LGBT-Related Research and Reviews? A Comment on “A Content Analysis of LGBT Research in Top Family Journals 2000–2015”? An Editorial Analysis

“…Between 2000 and 2009, MFR featured publication of 306 articles, excluding biographies and brief editorials, with one article published that contained information on same-sex marriage in Canada (Schlesinger, 2007). Between 2010 and 2017, MFR featured several reviews of LGBT-related literature or commentaries on such reviews, with reviews focusing on family interventions (Rosik, 2014;Whitton & Buzzella, 2012), research literature (Allen, 2015;Cameron & Cameron, 2012;Cameron, Cameron, & Proctor, 2017;Kulik, 2011;Schumm, 2010Schumm, , 2012a, and commentary on research literature (Schumm, Crawford, Childs, Ateeq, Koochel, & Alshalan, 2017) as well as five empirical articles (Bong, 2011;Edwards, 2011;Negy, Pearte, & Lacefield, 2013;Sutphin, 2010), of which one concerned family life education program evaluation (Skogrand, Mendez, & Higginbotham, 2013) out of 250 published articles. The difference in rates between the early and later periods of MFR was statistically significant, with an odds ratio = 18.1 (95% CI, 2.36 to 138.6, p = .005), despite the small number of LGBT-related articles published in either time frame.…”