Sexual and/or gender minority mental health disparities in adolescence: effects of adverse peer and family experiences
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Research exploring developmental explanations for sexual and/or gender minority (i.e. SGM) mental health disparities often rely on adults’ retrospectively reported childhood adversity, leaving gaps in understanding how childhood adversity affects SGM mental health disparities during critical developmental periods and/or in contemporary youth. We tested the association between 459 12- to 17-year-old Canadian adolescents’ SGM status and mental health (i.e. life satisfaction, internalizing symptoms) and whether this was explained by indirect effects of peer and family adversity. Additionally, we examined developmental differences between early and middle adolescence. SGM status significantly predicted worse mental health. In an adjusted model, indirect effects through peer and family adversity were significant; the previously detected total effect of SGM status on life satisfaction disappeared and the effect on internalizing symptoms lessened. No significant developmental differences were detected. This suggests that mental health disparities are present in contemporary SGM youth and concurrent adverse experiences may underlie these disparities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".