Social Networks of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Olr Adults - PubMed

Contents:

• SOCIAL NETWORKS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR OLR ADULTS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG
• HEALTHRE AND END-OF-LIFE NEEDS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) OLR ADULTS: A SPG REVIEW

SOCIAL NETWORKS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR OLR ADULTS

Social Networks of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Olr Adults. This study exam global social works-cludg iendship, support, and acquatance works-of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) olr adults.

Histograms of work size (up to 95th percentile) and work diversy for lbian (n = 529), gay male (n = 1, 128), bisexual (n = 94), and transgenr (n = 136) dividuals. Social support, self-rated health, and lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr inty disclosure to ncer re provirs. Cancer and lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr/transsexual, and queer/qutng (LGBTQ) populatns.

J Homosex. Examg differential succs recment g rponnt driven samplg (RDS) a multi-se study of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men. Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC4706743NIHMSID: NIHMS746896AbstractPurposeThis study exam global social works—cludg iendship, support, and acquatance works—of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) olr and MethodsUtilizg data om a large muny-based study, we employ multiple regrsn analys to exame rrelat of social work size and diversy.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG

The lack of social relatnships, on the other hand, is associated wh creas risky health behavrs (Shankar, McMunn, Banks, & Steptoe, 2011) and poor physil health (Cacppo & Hawkley, 2003) ntrast to a large number of studi that have examed olr adults’ social works the general populatn, work studi specific to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) olr adults are limed. One study found that work siz did not differ between gay/lbian and bisexual olr adults (Grossman et al., 2000). Moreover, while the majory of gay male and lbian dividuals among baby boomers have acceptance om their blogil fai, this is not the se for bisexual and pecially for transgenr people (Metlife Mature Market Instute & Amerin Society on Agg, 2010).

Hypothis 1: Background characteristics (beg gay or lbian, female, younger age, non-Hispanic Whe, havg higher e and tn, beg employed and havg fewer chronic ndns), fay relatns (havg a partner or spoe and child), inty disclosure (to bt iends and neighbors), participatn relig activi, and service utilizatn will be posively associated wh greater social work size. Hypothis 2: Background characteristics (beg gay or lbian, female, younger age, non-Hispanic Whe, havg higher e and tn, beg employed and havg fewer chronic ndns), fay relatns (havg a partner or spoe and child), inty disclosure (to bt iends and neighbors), participatn relig activi, and service utilizatn will be posively associated wh greater social work and MethodsData CollectnThe study was nducted through a llaboratn wh 11 muny agenci om different regns of the Uned Stat, cludg some agenci that were LGBT specific and some that were servg olr adults general. ” To asss diversy of social works by sexual inty and age, we asked rponnts to report the number of their acquatanc separately for five tegori, gay men, gay/lbian women, bisexual dividuals (men and women), transgenr (men and women), and heterosexual dividuals (men and women), and we asked the prevly mentned unts be reported separately for persons aged 50 and olr and for persons unr the age of 50 (Figure 1) work qutns the CAP social work measurement ponent of the qutnnaire was limed spe due to the potential for overall rponnt burn.

HEALTHRE AND END-OF-LIFE NEEDS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) OLR ADULTS: A SPG REVIEW

Network diversy as an ditor of work bridgg potential In the ntext of this article, for the purpos of ncise exposn, we will refer to transgenr adults as T, and to nontransgenr lbian, nontransgenr gay men, and nontransgenr bisexual groups as simply L, G, and B, rpectively.

Background characteristic Sexual inty was measured by askg participants to self-intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, heterosexual or straight, and other. Female participants who intified themselv as gay were red as lbian. Th, we ed both of the measur satisfy the assumptns of homoscedasticy and normaly of riduals (Weisberg, 2005), we employed the logarhm transformatn of the social work size variable.

RultsNetwork rmatn was available for 1, 913 dividuals, of whom there were 529 lbian nontransgenr women, 1128 gay nontransgenr men, 94 bisexual nontransgenr men and women, and 136 transgenr men and women.

41) and gay men reported the smallt size (M = 56. 8201, 047Gay men, nontransgenr1, 12856.

For both gay male and lbian olr adults, the modal diversy was 3, ditg that more of the dividuals reported social ti to three different sexual inty and genr inty groups (among L, G, B, or T) than to any other number of groups.

Nohels, on average, lbian rponnts had more diversy their work ti than gay men (pennt 2-group Mann–Whney U Tt, p value <. Transgenr and bisexual dividuals had greater diversy than gay and lbian dividuals, and their modal work diversy valu were 5 and 4, rpectively.

For example, of 529 lbian rponnts, 422 reported that they have social ti to gay male dividuals. The transgenr participants showed the most even distributn of social ti across the four sexual and genr inty groups, while lbian and gay male olr adults showed the most affy toward groups of siar sexual and genr inty.