Worsening Perceptions of Family Connectedness and Parent Support for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adolescents

Watson, Ryan J.; Rose, Hilary; Doull, Marion; Adjei, Jones; Saewyc, Elizabeth

doi:10.1007/s10826-019-01489-3

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“…In support of these ideas, several studies now document persistent trends in sexual orientation differences in mental health (Liu et al, 2020;Peter et al, 2017;Raifman et al, 2017), substance use (Fish & Baams, 2018;Fish, Turner et al, 2019;Fish et al, 2017), and the factors implicated in sexual minority health inequities (e.g., victimizations, family support; Watson et al, 2019;Poteat et al, 2020). At the same time, research on the developmental timing of sexual orientation and gender identity-related disparities in substance use (Fish & Russell, 2019a), mental health (Fish & Russell, 2019b;La Roi et al, 2016), and peer victimization (Martin-Storey & Fish, 2019;Mittleman, 2019;Fish & Russell, 2019b) demonstrate that these disparities emerge at early ages.…”

Section: Why Lgbtq Youth Mental Health Remains Urgentmentioning

confidence: 96%

Future Directions in Understanding and Addressing Mental Health among LGBTQ Youth

Fish

2020

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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Section: Why Lgbtq Youth Mental Health Remains Urgentmentioning

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Future Directions in Understanding and Addressing Mental Health among LGBTQ Youth

Fish

2020

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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“…Sexual‐minority youth are less likely to report closeness, attachment, and support; are less likely to disclose personal problems; and are more likely to report conflict with parents than their cis or heterosexual counterparts (Feinstein et al, ; Montano et al, ; Montano, McCauley, Miller, Chisolm, & Marshal, ). Although some SGM youth may face less sexuality‐ and gender‐related rejection than in previous decades (Russell & Fish, ), some survey research shows that family support has actually decreased over time (Watson, Rose, Doull, Adjei, & Saewyc, ). Parent–child conflict appears to be particularly impactful after a child discloses their sexual identity (i.e., “coming out”; Alonzo & Buttitta, ; Jhang, ; Scherrer, Kazyak, & Schmitz, ).…”

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Sexual‐ and Gender‐Minority Families: A 2010 to 2020 Decade in Review

Reczek

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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This paper critically reviews research on sexual and gender minority (SGM) families, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex, and other (LGBTQAI+) families, in the past decade (2010–2020). First, this paper details the three primary subareas that make up the majority of research on SGM families: (1) SGM family of origin relationships, (2) SGM intimate relationships, and (3) SGM‐parent families. Next, this paper highlights three main gaps in this decade's research: (1) a focus on gay, lesbian, and same‐sex families (and to a lesser extent bisexual and transgender families) and a lack of attention to the diverse family ties of single SGM people as well as intersex, asexual, queer, gender non‐binary/non‐conforming, polyamorous, and other SGM families; (2) an emphasis on white, socioeconomically advantaged SGM people and a failure to account for the significant racial‐ethnic and socioeconomic diversity in the SGM population; and (3) a lack of integration of SGM experiences across the life course, from childhood to old age. Future research should refine the measurement and analysis of SGM family ties with novel theory and data across the methodological spectrum.

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“…Consistent with the last and main hypothesis (H4), social support from parents and friends and school belonging were collectively responsible for 49%-70% of the association between sexual minority status and health outcomes. The explanatory power of these different support sources in the models was slightly larger than that attributed to family and peer support in earlier United States and Canadian research on various mental health outcomes [22][23][24] and to relationships with parents, peers, and ''class mentors'' in earlier research on depression using a Dutch sample. 25 School belonging played the strongest mediating role in the association between adolescent sexual minority status and health/well-being, suggesting that integration of sexual minority adolescents within schools is critical to closing health disparities.…”

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“…The few available studies concentrate on family relations, 21,22 and such an emphasis is well guided: family relations are pivotal to adolescent adjustment, 15 and family connectedness and parental support among LGB adolescents have declined over recent years. 23 Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Pearson and Wilkinson 21 showed that parental closeness, family support, and parental involvement significantly mediated the relationship between sexual minority status and depressive symptoms among 7th-12th graders. Similarly, using data from the NEXT Generation Health Study, Luk et al 22 concluded that family satisfaction was a significant mediator of the association between sexual minority status and trajectories of depressive symptoms among young adults aged 17-21 years.…”

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Health Disparities Between Sexual Minority and Different-Sex-Attracted Adolescents: Quantifying the Intervening Role of Social Support and School Belonging

Perales

Campbell

2020

LGBT Health

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Purpose: An emerging literature documents that sexual minority youth experience significantly and substantially worse health than their heterosexual peers, but few studies have examined the intervening mechanisms linking adolescents' sexual orientation to their health outcomes. This study hypothesized that social support from parents and friends and school belonging would act as important mediators of this relationship and is among the first to test this proposition empirically. Methods: The analyses used rich data from an Australian national probability sample of 14-15-year olds (Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, n = 3204) and regression models to estimate the associations between sexual attraction and four high-quality indicators of adolescent health/well-being capturing health-related quality of life, socio-emotional functioning, depressive symptoms, and life satisfaction. Mediation tests were subsequently performed to quantify the extent to which three scales capturing social support from parents and friends and school belonging mediated the relationships identified. Results: Sexual minority status, social support from parents and friends, and school belonging were significantly related to all health/well-being outcomes. Sexual minority adolescents reported significantly lower levels of support and belonging. Collectively, the support and belonging variables were responsible for 49%-70% of the associations between sexual minority status and the health/well-being outcomes, with school belonging being the most important mediator. Conclusion: These findings have important implications for health equity policy and practice. They suggest that interventions designed to improve the health/well-being of sexual minority adolescents should be directed at eliciting enhanced social support from families and peers and fostering integration at school. School-based interventions may be particularly fruitful.

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Worsening Perceptions of Family Connectedness and Parent Support for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adolescents

Cited by 27 publications

References 44 publications

Future Directions in Understanding and Addressing Mental Health among LGBTQ Youth

Future Directions in Understanding and Addressing Mental Health among LGBTQ Youth

Sexual‐ and Gender‐Minority Families: A 2010 to 2020 Decade in Review

Health Disparities Between Sexual Minority and Different-Sex-Attracted Adolescents: Quantifying the Intervening Role of Social Support and School Belonging

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