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ArticleJournal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence2025

LGBTQ+ youth policy and mental health: Indirect effects through school experiences.

Samantha A Moran, Meg D Bishop, Ryan J Watson, Jessica N Fish

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Article in Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  4. The Lived Experience of Thai LGBTQInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  5. LGBTQ+ youth policy and mental health: Indirect effects through school experiences.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025
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4 authors.

Samantha A MoranDepartment of Family Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-7900-9210
Meg D BishopDepartment of Family Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6257-8460
Ryan J WatsonDepartment of Human Development & Family Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
Jessica N FishDepartment of Family Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.

Funding

PrEP and substance use among sexual minority young adultsK01DA047918 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI WATSON, RYAN J · 2019 to 2023
$952k
Sexual orientation, gender identity, and alcohol use: A multi-method analysis of developmental differences and key mechanismsF32AA030194 · NIAAA · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI BISHOP, MEG · 2022 to 2024
$215k
CDC HHSMaryland Population Research Center by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentNational Institute of Drug AbuseNational Institute of Minority Health DisparitiesNIAAA NIH HHS F32 AA030194NIDA NIH HHS K01 DA047918
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The link between state policies and LGBTQ+ youth mental health is well-established, yet less well-understood are the mechanisms that drive these associations. We used a sample from the LGBTQ+ National Teen Survey (n = 8368) collected in 2022 to examine whether and to what degree LGBTQ+ inclusive school strategies, student perceptions of school safety, and experiences with bias-based bullying and peer victimization explain the association between state LGBTQ+ youth-focused policies and LGBTQ+ youth mental health symptomology. We observed significant indirect effects between policy and LGBTQ+ youth mental health through all four constructs, suggesting that each of these more proximal school experiences was independently implicated in this association. Findings underscore how state policies shape LGBTQ+ youth mental health symptomology via more proximal contexts and emphasize the importance of policy implementation following enactment.

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BullyingMental HealthSchoolsSexual and Gender MinoritiesAdolescentCrime VictimsFemaleHumansMalePeer GroupStudentsSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited Statesbias‐based bullyingLGBTQ+ policyLGBTQ+ youthmental healthpeer victimizationschool climateschool safety

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PMID39734104
PMCPMC11682966

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