ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Excess Stress and Natural Mentors in the Lives of Sexual Minority Youth

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Clinical Science

  • Cherrelle Gipson
    University of Massachusetts Boston
  • Jean Rhodes
    University of Massachusetts Boston

Abstract

Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the following study examines experiences of stress, the presence and nature of natural mentors in the lives of sexual minority youth, and whether natural mentors buffer the association between stress and a negative mental health symptoms among sexual minority youth.

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