Theses and Dissertations from UMD

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    RACE AND IMMIGRATION STATUS AS MODERATORS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY ACCEPTANCE/FAMILY REJECTION AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS FOR LGBTQ+ YOUTH
    (2019) Levin, Emma R; Leslie, Leigh; Family Studies; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Research consistently demonstrates that LGBTQ+ youth, when compared to non-LGBTQ+ youth, are at significantly greater risk for depression, anxiety, substance use, and suicidality as a result of stressors related to belonging to a minority group (Russell & Fish, 2016). Family acceptance is an important protective factor against these negative mental health outcomes, and family rejection has been demonstrated as an important risk factor. Research on LGBTQ+ youth has been criticized for regarding all LGBTQ+ youth as the same and not accounting for the intersection and interaction with other identities such as race or immigrant status. The research questions posed by this study are 1) to what extent do race and immigrant status, separately and combined, moderate the established relationship between family acceptance and depressive symptoms?, and 2) to what extent do race and immigrant status, separately and combined, moderate the established relationship between family rejection and depressive symptoms? Results of the present study show that race significantly moderated the relationship between family acceptance and depression for LGBTQ+ youth, but did not moderate the relationship between family rejection and depression. Immigrant status moderated neither relationship. Three-way interactions with race and immigrant status moderated both the association among family acceptance, family rejection, and depression. Clinical implications and implications for future research are discussed.
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    The Role of Self-Esteem in the Relationship Between Sexual Minority Status and Depressive Symptoms
    (2015) Ng, Diane; Lee, Sunmin; Public and Community Health; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Sexual 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.