ArticlePsychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity2020
Normative Substance Use Antecedents among Sexual Minorities: A Scoping Review and Synthesis.
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- A meta-analysis of sexual orientation inequities in substance use among youth.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Pooled it
- A Gamified Personalized Normative Feedback App to Reduce Drinking Among Sexual Minority Women: Randomized Controlled Trial and Feasibility Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- Reasons for not drinking: Demographic variation and health risk awareness among abstainers and former drinkers in a national survey.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Identifying dominant factors that impact hazardous alcohol use among sexual and gender minority groups.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Experiences in Gender-Sexuality Alliances and School-Based Victimization Show Limited Differences in Alcohol Use Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Article
- Planned versus Unplanned Daily Substance Use among Sexual Minority Youth: The Moderating Role of Social Norms.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- College Student Social Network Characteristics and Alcohol Use: Differences (and Similarities) Based on Sexual Identity and Attraction.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Article
- Examining associations between protective factors, distal minority stress, substance use, and mental health in LGBTQ+ postsecondary students.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2025Article
- Using a Sober Curious Framework to Explore Barriers and Facilitators to Helping Sexual Minority Women Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms: Protocol for a Descriptive Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Sexualized drug use factors among rural sexual minority men.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- COVID-19 Concerns, Coping and Perceived Peer Norms: Correlates of Increased Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among Sexual Minority Women.Journal of homosexuality · 2024Article
- How Experiences of Stigma and Discrimination at Various Points in the Queer Life Course Interrelate with Alcohol Use: Views from Sexually and Gender Diverse Youth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Disparities in Transitions From E-cigarette Use to Other Tobacco Use Patterns Among Sexual Minority Versus Heterosexual Women and Men in the United States.Substance use & addiction journal · 2024Article
- How drinking motives mediate associations between sexual orientation and indicators of alcohol use - a study among young Swiss men.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The Differential Role of Perceived Same-Gender and Gender-Neutral Norms in Emerging Adult Risk Behavior.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- Cannabis Use Differences Among Sexual Minority Versus Heterosexual Females and Males in Oklahoma: The Roles of Mental Health, Cannabis Perceptions, and Cannabis Marketing Exposure.Substance use & addiction journal · 2024Article
- Oppression-Based Stress and Alcohol Inequities Among Sexual and Gender Minority People: An Intersectional Multilevel Framework.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2024Review
- Disparities in cannabis use outcomes, perceived risks and social norms across sexual orientation groups of US young adult women and men.Health education research · 2023Article
- Disparities in trajectories of cigarette and E-cigarette use across sexual orientation groups of young adult men and women in the US.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- Structural stigma and alcohol use among sexual and gender minority adults: A systematic review.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Although sexual minority stress remains the dominant perspective for understanding disproportionate substance use among lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) populations, social norms are among the most predictive and commonly targeted substance use antecedents in other high-risk groups. This scoping review seeks to bring clarity to the body of norms-focused alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) research conducted with LGBs over the past 20 years, identify intervention implications, and present priority directions for future research. Fifty-two peer-reviewed studies published between June 1999 and June 2019 were identified from searches of PubMed, PsycInfo, and Medline databases using combinations of terms related to: social norms; sexual orientation or sexual minority status; and, the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. A far greater number of studies focused on actual ATOD norms than perceived ATOD norms or discrepancies between actual or perceived norms, illuminating the need for additional research focused on these levels of analysis. Taken together, this literature suggests that: (1) perceived ATOD norms are reliable predictors of LGBs' ATOD use; (2) actual ATOD use norms are low among LGBs participating in representative, population-based survey studies; and, (3) LGBs over-estimate the ATOD use of peers. Thus, intervention strategies including personalized normative feedback, psychoeducation, and social branding may hold promise in reducing LGBs substance use. However, additional research is needed to increase our understanding of injunctive ATOD norms, identify meaningful LGB reference groups, elucidate environmental influences on ATOD norms, and examine relationships between stigma experiences, perceived norms, and ATOD use.
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