Abstract

Adolescents experiencing depressive symptoms tend to withdraw from social interaction, but patterns among Latinx LGBT youth (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) are unclear. Latinx adolescents in the Greater Los Angeles Area (N = 549) were surveyed during two consecutive years, and longitudinal relationships among depressive symptoms, parental support-seeking, and loneliness were examined for differences based on youth’s LGBT identity. LGBT identity moderated the relationship between baseline depressive symptoms and subsequent parental support-seeking, such that higher baseline depressive symptoms predicted less subsequent parental support-seeking for non-LGBT youth, but not for LGBT youth. The relationship between parental support-seeking and depressive symptoms, both at Time 2, was moderated by LGBT identity, such that more support-seeking tended to correspond with fewer depressive symptoms for non-LGBT youth, but the opposite tended to occur for LGBT youth. Results suggest a subgroup effect, such that LGBT Latinx adolescents may seek parental support differently than their non-LGBT Latinx peers in the context of depressive symptoms.

摘要

经历抑郁症状的青少年倾向于退出社交互动，但拉丁裔 LGBT 青年（即女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别）的模式尚不清楚。大洛杉矶地区的拉丁裔青少年（N = 549) 连续两年进行了调查，并根据青少年的 LGBT 身份检查了抑郁症状、寻求父母支持和孤独感之间的纵向关系。LGBT 身份缓和了基线抑郁症状与随后的父母寻求支持之间的关系，因此较高的基线抑郁症状预示着非 LGBT 青少年随后寻求父母支持的程度较低，但对于 LGBT 青少年则不然。在时间 2 时，父母寻求支持和抑郁症状之间的关系受到 LGBT 身份的调节，因此更多寻求支持往往对应于非 LGBT 青年的抑郁症状较少，但相反的情况往往发生在 LGBT 青年. 结果表明存在亚组效应，