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Title: Emotional Distress Disparities Across Multiple Intersecting Social Positions: The Role of Bias-Based Bullying

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2024

ISSN: 0031-4005

DOI: 10.1542/PEDS.2023-061647

Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To apply an intersectional lens to disparities in emotional distress among youth, including multiple social positions and experiences with bias-based bullying. METHODS: Data are from the 2019 Minnesota Student Survey (n 5 80 456). Social positions (race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender) and 2 forms of bias-based bullying (racist, ho-mophobic or transphobic) were entered into decision tree models for depression, anxiety, self-injury, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts. Groups with the highest prevalence are described. Rates of emotional distress among youth with matching social positions but no bias-based bullying are described for comparison. RESULTS: LGBQ identities (90%) and transgender, gender diverse, and questioning identities (54%) were common among the highest-prevalence groups for emotional distress, often concurrently ; racial and ethnic identities rarely emerged. Bias-based bullying characterized 82% of the highest-prevalence groups. In comparable groups without bias-based bullying, emotional distress rates were 20% to 60% lower (average 38.8%). CONCLUSIONS: Findings highlight bias-based bullying as an important point for the intervention and mitigation of mental health disparities, particularly among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen-der, gender-diverse, queer, and questioning adolescents. Results point to the importance of addressing bias-based bullying in schools and supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender-diverse, queer, and questioning students at the systemic level as a way of preventing emotional distress. WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Several studies have identified disparities in emotional distress among youth across social positions, but are limited by inclusion of only 2 social positions (eg, sexual orientation and race), use of regression models, and sample sizes that necessitated combining groups. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS: LGBQ identities (90%) and transgender/gender-diverse/questioning identities (54%) were common among the highest-prevalence groups for emotional distress, often concurrently; bias-based bullying characterized 82% of highest-prevalence groups. In comparable groups without bias-based bullying, emotional distress rates were 20%-60% lower.

Url: /pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2023-061647/196486/Emotional-Distress-Disparities-Across-Multiple

Url: https://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2023-061647

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Authors: Eisenberg, Marla E.; Lawrence, Samantha E.; Eadeh, Hana-May; Suresh, Malavika; Rider, G. Nic; Gower, Amy L.

Periodical (Full): Pediatrics

Issue: 2

Volume: 153

Pages: 2023061647

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