Sexual orientation, peer relationships, and depressive symptoms: Findings from a sociometric design

Chaim la Roi; Tina Kretschmer; Rene Veenstra; Henny Bos; Luc Goossens; Karine Verschueren; Hilde Colpin; Karla Van Leeuwen; Wim Van Den Noortgate; Jan Kornelis Dijkstra

doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101086

Sexual orientation, peer relationships, and depressive symptoms: Findings from a sociometric design

Chaim la Roi^*, Tina Kretschmer, Rene Veenstra, Henny Bos, Luc Goossens, Karine Verschueren, Hilde Colpin, Karla Van Leeuwen, Wim Van Den Noortgate, Jan Kornelis Dijkstra

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Abstract

Sexual minority youth report poorer mental health than heterosexual youth. According to the minority stress framework, this results from sexual minority individuals being societally marginalized, which for sexual minority youth may include being poorly integrated in the peer context. A sociometric approach was used to test whether peer relationships, measured broadly as friendship, acceptance, disliking, and bullying relationships, mediated the link between a sexual minority orientation and depressive symptoms in adolescence. Analyses were conducted across three samples from the Netherlands and Belgium (N = 352; N = 1848; N = 263). Sexual minority respondents reported higher levels of depressive symptoms than heterosexual respondents, yet sexual orientation differences in peer relationships were small. Moreover, no link between peer relationships and depressive symptoms was found. Consequently, indirect effects were small too.

Original language	English
Article number	101086
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Volume	66
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101086
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

Sexual minority youth
Depressive symptoms
Peer relationships
Peer nominations
MENTAL-HEALTH
BULLYING VICTIMIZATION
SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
FRIENDSHIP NETWORKS
MUTUAL ANTIPATHIES
SUICIDAL IDEATION
EARLY ADOLESCENCE
SELF-ESTEEM
GAY
BEHAVIOR

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la Roi, C., Kretschmer, T., Veenstra, R., Bos, H., Goossens, L., Verschueren, K., Colpin, H., Van Leeuwen, K., Van Den Noortgate, W., & Dijkstra, J. K. (2020). Sexual orientation, peer relationships, and depressive symptoms: Findings from a sociometric design. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 66, Article 101086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101086

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