Latent Syndemic Profiles among Sexual and Gender Minority College Students and Psychological Distress amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Turpin, Rodman; King-Marshall, Evelyn; Dyer, Typhanye
Titel	Latent Syndemic Profiles among Sexual and Gender Minority College Students and Psychological Distress amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quelle	In: Journal of LGBT Youth, 20 (2023) 3, S.724-741 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dyer, Typhanye)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1936-1653
DOI	10.1080/19361653.2022.2149659
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; Minority Group Students; LGBTQ People; Mental Health; Victims; Bullying; Social Bias; Racism; Family Relationship; Social Isolation; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychohygiene; Victim; Opfer; Mobbing; Rassismus; Soziale Isolation; Korrelation
Abstract	Sexual and gender minority (SGM) college students experience compounding psychological effects as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using latent profile analysis of cross-sectional data from a sample of SGM students (n = 565) we tested for a syndemic of victimization, internalized LGBTQ + stigma, racism, racialized heterosexism/cisgenderism, family rejection, and isolation associated with psychological distress. We also tested if increases in these factors since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with greater psychological distress among syndemic profiles. We identified four profiles: 'Lowest syndemic factors' (reference), 'High isolation only', 'High isolation and rejection only', and 'High syndemic'. The greatest distress was observed among the 'High syndemic' profile (aPR = 2.99, 95% CI 2.20, 4.06), followed by the 'High isolation and rejection only' profile (aPR = 2.11, 95% CI 1.61, 2.76), and the 'High isolation only' profile (aPR = 1.32, 95% CI 1.03, 1.70). Among the 'High syndemic profile', increases in every factor since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with greater psychological distress. The strongest associations were seen among increased victimization (aPR = 5.85, 95% CI 1.33, 25.71). Victimization, internalized LGBTQ + stigma, racism, family rejection, and isolation form a syndemic among SGM students, which has magnified since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01