LGBTQ+ Young People Minority Stress, Mediators, and Mental Health
Year: 2026
Type: dataset
Abstract: This dataset contains anonymised longitudinal survey data from LGBTQ+ young people aged 16–25 years living in the UK. Data were collected across three time points and examine relationships between distal minority stress, emotion regulation, LGBTQ+ identity-related processes, coping with stigma, community connectedness, and mental health outcomes including depression, anxiety, suicidality, and self-harm.Data collection methodsData were collected from LGBTQ+ young people aged 16–25 years living in the UK using an online longitudinal survey administered across three time points, each separated by approximately two weeks. Participants were recruited online through social media, university research advertisements, LGBTQ+ organisations, and wider research networks.At baseline (T1), participants completed demographic measures and measures of distal minority stress, including sexual-orientation-related harassment, rejection and discrimination and/or gender-minority-related discrimination, rejection and victimisation. At T2, participants completed measures assessing difficulties in emotion regulation, LGBTQ+ identity-related processes (including identity uncertainty and self-acceptance), LGBTQ+ community connectedness, and coping with stigma/minority-stress experiences. At T3, participants completed measures of depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and behaviours, and self-harm thoughts and behaviours.The deposited dataset contains anonymised questionnaire data collected across these time points.Only those identifying as gender diverse completed the gender-diverse specific measures and those who identified as sexuality diverse completed the sexuality-diverse specific measures.
DOI: 10.18742/33265227
Author: Jake Camp
Institution: King's College London
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204250018