The Impact of Parental Reaction to Sexual Orientation on Depressive Symptoms and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Hispanic Men Who Have Sex with Men.
Victoria B Mitrani, Joseph P De Santis, Brian E McCabe and 3 others
PMID 28693870WHAT IT FOUND
Parental non-acceptance was linked to more depressive symptoms in Hispanic men who have sex with men, but not to safer sex behavior.
Adapting more to U.S. culture was linked to lower depression.
Key findings
01Of 125 men, 51 said both parents knew, 43 said neither parent knew, 27 said only their mother knew, and 4 said only their father knew; 78 mothers and 55 fathers knew.
02Mothers' non-acceptance and fathers' non-acceptance were positively related to depressive symptoms, while parental reaction was not directly related to safer sex behaviors.
03Acculturation to the U.S. was inversely related to depressive symptoms, but not significantly related to safer sex behaviors in the full sample.
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What it does not show
Cross-sectional design cannot show whether parental rejection led to depression or depression changed perceptions of parents. Only men's perceptions of parents were measured; parents did not report their own reactions. Convenience and snowball sample of Miami-Dade Hispanic MSM limits generalizability. Interaction tests may have been low-powered in this sample, so null findings for some effects are uncertain. Ancillary study lacked more nuanced indicators about the relationships.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that parental rejection causes depression or increases sexual risk. The study is cross-sectional, and parental reaction was not directly related to safer sex behaviors.