The article, "Resilience and depression: The roles of racial identity, sexual identity and social support on well-being for Black LGB emerging adults” appears in the Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships.
Buffie Longmire-Avital, associate professor of psychology, has co-authored an article in the Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships.
Through the use of hierarchical linear regression analyses, Buffie Longmire-Avital, associate professor of psychology, and her research colleague, Ja’Nina Walker, associate professor at the University of San Francisco, found that that for black lesbian, gay and bisexual emerging adults (ages 18 – 25) perceiving limited social support was predictive of increases in self-reported depressive symptomatology.
However, black LGB emerging adults reporting greater amounts of social support in combination with having positive regard (i.e., esteem) for both their racial and sexual identities were concurrently found to be more resilient. This work aligns with the stress-buffer-hypothesis model and the ample literature on the critical role of social identities in fostering well-being, especially for members of minority communities.
The authors argue that using an intersectional approach to acknowledge the concurrent and overlapping nature of multiple social identities is key.
The article, “Resilience and depression: The roles of racial identity, sexual identity and social support on well-being for Black LGB emerging adults” appears in the 4 volume, 4 issue of the Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships.