ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2022
Do psychosocial factors mediate sexual minorities' risky sexual behaviour? A twin study.
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- Identifying Syndemic Factors and Their Effect on HIV Sexual Risk Behavior Among Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Are the Effects of Poor Survey Measurement of Sexual Identity on Estimated Associations between Sexual Identity and Health-Related Measures Moderated by the State-Level Policy Environment?Journal of homosexuality · 2025Article
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- Patterns of Sexual Risk Behaviors and Sexuality-Related Risk Factors among Young Adults in Germany: Implications for Prevention and Therapy.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Childhood Gender Nonconformity and Parental Maltreatment as Mediators of Sexual Orientation Disparities in Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Intimate Partner Violence Among Sexual Minority Women: A Scoping Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Article
- Sexual Compulsivity Mediates the Association Between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Condom Use Resistance Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- Exploring Relationships Between Internalizing Problems and Risky Sexual Behavior: A Twin Study.Behavior genetics · 2023Article
- Causal Influences of Same-Sex Attraction on Psychological Distress and Risky Sexual Behaviors: Evidence for Bidirectional Effects.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- Bidirectional Causal Associations Between Same-Sex Attraction and Psychological Distress: Testing Moderation and Mediation Effects.Behavior genetics · 2023Article
- Neuroticism and Sexual Orientation-Based Victimization as Mediators of Sexual Orientation Disparities in Mental Health.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
- Health Disparities by Sexual Orientation: Implications of Genetic and Environmental Explanations.Journal of sex researchArticle
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Abstract
objectivesRisky sexual behavior among sexual minorities (lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals) are partly attributed to mental health and other social disparities; but this may be confounded by correlated genetic and environmental influences. As preregistered, the present study investigated indirect associations between sexual minority status and increased lifetime sexual partners through increased psychosocial adversity (depressive and anxiety symptoms, intimate partner violence, and early life adversities) and substance use (alcohol, cannabis, and other illicit drugs), confounding by correlated genetic and environmental influences, and sex differences in these relationships.
methodThe sample comprised sexual minority and heterosexual twins who participated in the first and second phases of the latest wave of data collection in the U.K. population-based Twins Early Development study cohort (June 2017 through February 2019;
resultsIncreased psychosocial adversity and substance use fully mediated increased lifetime sexual partners in sexual minority women while this effect was partial (31.1%) in men. The best-fitting genetic models indicated that these relationships were not confounded by correlated genetic and environmental influences.
conclusionsThe relationships between sexual minority status, psychosocial adversity, substance use, and sexual health disparities appeared independent of genetic and environmental influences. Individual and systemic interventions to reduce psychosocial disadvantage and substance use can also decrease sexual health disparities among sexual minorities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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