Sexual Identity and Birth Cohort Differences in Social Support and Its Link with Well-Being among Sexual Minority Individuals.

Chaïm la Roi, David M Frost, Allen Mallory, Andy Lin, Ilan H Meyer

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Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Sexual Orientation and Social Isolation from Early Adulthood to Early Midlife.Journal of health and social behavior · 2026
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Changes in sexual identity and family support: A cohort analysis.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2026
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Sleep Health by Sexual Orientation among Women in the United States and Interrelations with Race/Ethnicity, Age, and Generational Cohort.International journal of women's health · 2025
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Chaïm la RoiSwedish Institute for Social Research, University of Stockholm, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden. chaim.laroi@sofi.su.se.ORCID 0000-0001-9822-6259

David M FrostSocial Research Institute, University College London, London, UK.

Allen MalloryDepartment of Human Sciences, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

Andy LinUCLA Office of Advanced Research Computing, University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Ilan H MeyerThe Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Funding

Identity Stress and Health in Three Cohorts of LGB individualsR01HD078526 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MEYER, ILAN H · 2014 to 2018

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 1R01HD078526Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd 2012-1741Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd 2016-00678Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd 2016-07099NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD078526

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study examined sexual identity and birth cohort differences in social support and its association with well-being, using a longitudinal national probability sample of 706 cisgender and non-binary sexual minority individuals from the USA. The data allowed for extensive descriptions of perceived social support and support networks across subgroups. Findings demonstrated that sexual identity and birth cohort differences in overall sizes of support networks and levels of perceived social support were small. Furthermore, fixed effects analyses indicated that changes in the size of respondents' social support networks were not related to well-being, with a one-person change being associated with a .04 SD change in well-being or less, depending on the indicator of well-being being tested. Moreover, changes in perceived social support were only limitedly related to changes in respondents' well-being, a 1-point change in the scale of perceived social support being associated with a .11 SD change in life-satisfaction. Associations were smaller for overall well-being or psychological distress, the other two indicators of well-being used. Together, these findings could imply that cross-sectional research has overestimated the relevance of social support for the well-being of sexual minority individuals, but also that general social support is insufficiently tailored to the support needs of the sexual minority population.

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Personal SatisfactionSexual and Gender MinoritiesSocial SupportAdolescentAdultBirth CohortFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedUnited StatesYoung AdultPanel dataSexual minoritiesSexual orientationSocial supportWell-being

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PMID35980517

DOI10.1007/s10508-022-02366-9

PMCPMC13048958

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