Cognitive and Mental Health in Aging Sexual Minority Populations: Diversifying the Minority Stress Model
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Abstract
The aging population is continuously growing in North America, yet limited efforts have been made to understand the role of aging in the sexual minority research. Guided by the minority stress model (Meyer, 2003), the current study examined cognitive and mental health outcomes of aging sexual minority adults in Canada by using a population data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. To understand the role of social factors in sexual minority aging, the study first compared social participation rates between different sexual orientation groups by using the analysis of variance. The second part of the study investigated the relationship between sexual orientation and cognition by conducting multiple regression analyses while considering the role of social participation and social support. The third part of the study explored the relationship between sexual orientation and depression while considering the influence of neighborhood deprivation levels. Findings from the first part of the study indicate that social participation levels differ by sexual orientation in both aging men and women. Results from the second part of the study found that aging gay men perform better in cognitive flexibility and memory related tasks compared to their heterosexual peers even after considering the effects of social support and social participation. Bisexual women also performed significantly better in memory tasks than their lesbian and heterosexual counterparts, while reporting no significant effects of social support or social participation in the model. The third part of the study that investigated the role of neighborhood deprivation levels in the relationship between sexual orientation and depression in aging populations indicated that material deprivation levels contribute to the relationship between lesbian identity and depression in aging women as well as the relationship between bisexual identity and depression in aging men. The results of this study suggest that cognition, social participation, and neighborhood material deprivation are important constructs for studies that explore the aging process of sexual minority populations. In particular, this dissertation’s results related to depression point to the need for further support for aging sexual minority adults through behavioral and policy interventions.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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