The Role of Self-Esteem in the Relationship Between Sexual Minority Status and Depressive Symptoms

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dc.contributor.advisorLee, Sunminen_US
dc.contributor.authorNg, Dianeen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPublic and Community Healthen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-27T05:35:11Z
dc.date.available2015-06-27T05:35:11Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractSexual minority (SM) youth have been found to experience higher rates of depression and depressive symptoms compared with heterosexual youth. It has been suggested that there are mediators in the pathway between stigma-related stress and psychopathology, such as self-esteem. This study was interested in investigating whether self-esteem is a mediator between SM status by romantic attraction and the outcome depressive symptoms during the transition from adolescence to adulthood, and whether sex moderated this mediation. Results showed that those who were both-sex attracted had significantly higher depressive symptoms than their opposite-sex attracted counterparts (β=0.04,p=0.049). Further, findings showed that self-esteem is a mediator in the pathway between both-sex attraction and depressive symptoms (p=0.007). Although females were found to have higher depressive symptoms than males, no significant interaction with sexual minority status was found. These results can have implications for possible interventions to reduce depressive symptomatology for sexual minority groups transitioning into adulthood.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2CK7K
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16717
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPublic healthen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGLBT studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledadolescenceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddepressionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddepressive symptomsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLGBTen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledself-esteemen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsexual minorityen_US
dc.titleThe Role of Self-Esteem in the Relationship Between Sexual Minority Status and Depressive Symptomsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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