• Dr. Anubhav Soni

One hundred ninety-seven teenagers (14-19 years of age; 70 percent female; 29 percent sexual minority) completed steps on sexual minority-specific victimization, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation at six-month intervals in two phases, six months apart from one another. When compared to heterosexual adolescents, sexual minority adolescents reported greater levels of victimization, depressive symptoms, and suicide ideation related to their sexual orientation. The effect of sexual minority status on depressive symptoms and suicide was shown to be substantially mediated by victimization experienced by members of the LGBT community. Those results provide credence to the notion of minority stress, which asserts that targeted harassment and victimization are responsible for some of the elevated levels of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation seen in young people who identify as members of sexual minorities. This research supports measures in public policy that reduce bullying and hate crimes since reducing victimization may have a direct impact on the health and well-being of adolescents who identify as sexual minorities, according to the findings.

Adolescent, Depression, Heterosexual, Sexual Minority, Suicide Victimization.

"A Mental Wellness Moderator in Minority Youth", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.1048-1052, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFH06177.pdf

"A Mental Wellness Moderator in Minority Youth", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp1048-1052, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFH06177.pdf