Is the association between sexual minority status and suicide-related behaviours modified by rurality? A discrete-time survival analysis using longitudinal health administrative data

Nielsen, Andrew; Azra, Karanpreet Kaur; Kim, Chungah; Dusing, Gabriel John; Chum, Antony

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115896

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“…The minority stress model was initially formulated as a framework to understand the elevated prevalence of mental health problems among sexual minority persons (Meyer, 2003). Sexual minority persons experience elevated rates of depression and suicidality (Hottes et al, 2016;King et al, 2008;Marshal et al, 2011;Nielsen et al, 2023). Minority stress refers to the excess social stressors that minoritized persons face, and includes stereotypes, stigma, and experiences of discrimination and abuse.…”

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Self-reported Social Camouflaging in Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Autistic Adults

McQuaid,

Lee,

Wallace

2024

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Social camouflaging can include suppressing or concealing certain behaviors to appear “non-autistic” and is one response to the excess social stressors of being a neurominority in a neurotypical-majority society. It is important to understand how persons who are multiply marginalized (e.g., an autistic person assigned female sex at birth who is bisexual), who experience multiple layers of excess social stressors, may face additional pressures to conceal their authentic selves. Autistic persons may be more likely than neurotypical persons to identify with a sexual minority orientation, such as asexual, bisexual, gay or pansexual. To advance our understanding of how marginalized identities may be associated with social camouflaging, we examined self-reported social camouflaging using the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire in a sample of autistic adults (N=462). After matching participants for assigned sex at birth and age, and after controlling for these effects in modeling, we found that sexual minority autistic adults reported significantly higher levels of social camouflaging relative to heterosexual autistic adults. We situate these findings within literatures on social camouflaging, minority stress, and stigma.

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