TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Depressive symptoms among same-sex oriented young men: importance of reference group
JO  - Archives of sexual behavior
A1  - Savin-Williams, Ritch C.
A1  - Cohen, Kenneth M.
A1  - Joyner, Kara
A1  - Rieger, Gerulf
SP  - 1213
EP  - 1215
VL  - 39
IS  - 6
N2  - A recent meta-analysis indicated strong support for the commonly observed finding that, in contrast to heterosexual men, same-sex oriented men are at greater risk for mental health problems, especially affective disorders (King et al., 2008). The most common explanations for these findings are the increased prevalence of societal prejudice, stigma, and violence that allegedly generate "minority-stress" effects (King et al., 2008; Meyer, 2003; Saewyc, 2007). Hatzenbuehler (2009, p. 707) noted that stigma-related stress "gets under the skin" by inducing elevations in emotional dysregulation, which, in turn, confers risk for increased psychopathology among nonheterosexual populations. Although this explanation is reasonable, few other hypotheses have been proposed for the apparent elevation of depressive symptoms among same-sex attracted individuals.The alternative considered here is that mental health discrepancies among male sexual orientation groups are illusory because they are derive...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0004-0002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-010-9658-4
ID  - ref1
ER  -