Discrimination linked to mental health symptoms and cannabis use in rural…
Associations of Sexual Identity-Based Discrimination With Mental Health Symptoms and Substance Use Among Rural- and Urban-Residing Sexual Minority Young Adults: Differences by Resilience, Locus of Control, and Emotion Regulation.
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This observational study examined whether sexual identity-based discrimination was associated with later health outcomes among 549 sexual minority young adults ages 18–25 living in rural and urban areas. Researchers analyzed two survey waves and used regression models to account for baseline outcomes and sociodemographic factors. The outcomes included mental health symptoms and past-month tobacco, cannabis, and alcohol use; the study did not test a cannabis product or treatment.
Discrimination was associated with mental health symptoms among both rural- and urban-residing participants. Among rural participants, it was also associated with cannabis use; among urban participants, it was associated with tobacco use. Resilience buffered the discrimination–mental health symptom association among urban participants only, while suppression was a risk factor for alcohol use among urban participants facing discrimination. These findings are associations, not evidence that discrimination caused the outcomes. This is an abstract-based summary: the abstract does not provide effect sizes, and the observational design cannot establish causation or show that individual protective factors work universally.
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