Здраве и психосоциално благополучие на юноши с нехетеросексуална ориентация
Health and psychosocial well-being in adolescents with nonheterosexual orientation

Summary/Abstract: The risk of negative psychological outcomes resulting from minority stress is elevated in persons with non-heterosexual orientation. Increased levels of depressive affect and emotional distress, higher suicidality, alcohol & drug use, social alienation, and more school-related problems are found among non-heterosexual young people; they more frequently encounter victimization violence. The present study assesses the health and psychosocial well-being of 157 fifteen year-old non-heterosexual adolescents, participants in the national representative survey “Health Behavior in School-age Children“ (HBSC). Indicators such as victimization and violence, alcohol use and abuse, mental health and well-being, and perceived social support have been analyzed. The results showed that boys are too often involved in various situations of violence, both as victims and as perpetrators. Both genders consume alcohol regularly and drunkenness is common in boys. Mental health, well-being and perceived social support of non-heterosexual adolescents are relatively good. Non-heterosexual boys are at a disadvantage compared to their heterosexual counterparts in terms of practically all the studied indicators, while in girls significant differences were found only in relation to particular aspects (participation in fights, alcohol use &abuse, perceived social support from family).

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