ArticleAmerican journal of men's health
Invisibility Is Not Invincibility: The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Gay, Bisexual, and Straight Men's Mental Health.
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- Mental Health Supports for Sexual and Gender Minorities Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse: A Systematic Review of North American Literature.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Pooled it
- Adverse Childhood Experiences, Intimate Partner Violence Victimization, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Among Sexual Minority Young Adults.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2025Article
- Sleep health among sexual and gender minority people in the United States: A scoping review.Sleep medicine · 2025Article
- Intimate Partner Violence Predicts Alcohol and Substance Use Among Young Sexual and Gender Minorities Assigned Male at Birth: A Longitudinal Analysis of the RADAR Cohort.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- "It definitely changed me": Exploring sexual and gender diverse people's experiences with intimate partner violence in Ontario, Canada.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2024Article
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- Interpersonal Violence Victimization Experiences of Middle School Youth: An Exploration by Gender and Sexual/Romantic Attraction.Journal of homosexuality · 2023Article
- Risk and Protective Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Against Bisexual Victims: A Systematic Scoping Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Article
- What About the Men? A Critical Review of Men's Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Review
- Discrimination and intimate partner violence among a sample of bisexual and gay men in the United States: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Categories of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse Among Young Women and Men: Latent Class Analysis of Psychological, Physical, and Sexual Victimization and Perpetration in a UK Birth Cohort.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
- Sexual Minority Men's Perspectives and Experiences of Adolescent Pregnancy Risk and Pregnancy Prevention Behaviors.Journal of sex research · 2022Article
- Exploring the causal role of intimate partner violence and abuse on depressive symptoms in young adults: a population-based cohort study.BMC medicine · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sexual medicine · 2021Review
- Sexual Agreements and Intimate Partner Violence Among Male Couples in the U.S.: An Analysis of Dyadic Data.Archives of sexual behavior · 2021Article
- Austrian male patients' gender role conflict is associated with their wish for interpersonal violence to be addressed during patient-physician conversations: a questionnaire study.BMC public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a critical public health problem. However, there is limited research conducted on and about men who are survivors. This project extends previous research by examining the post-traumatic impact of diverse forms of IPV (sexual, physical, emotional, control, and stalking) on the internalized and externalized mental health of gay, bisexual, and straight men. Using data from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (2011; N = 18,957), we find that all men are equally likely to report emotional victimization and controlling tactics (with between 50% and 70% doing so), while bisexual men are significantly more likely to report physical and sexual violence and gay men are significantly more likely to report intimate stalking. Due to these experiences, gay men are significantly more likely to report missing school or work, but bisexual men are significantly more likely to rate their current overall mental health as poor. Around 10% of all men, regardless of sexual orientation, report post-traumatic stress disorder symptomology and 30% of all men report difficulty sleeping. This research suggests that sexual orientation is a critical area of focus in the study of violence and mental health for men and that we can no longer ignore the voices and needs of men survivors: Invisibility is not invincibility.
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