Sex race/ethnicity, and romantic attractions: Multiple minority status adolescents and mental health

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 200-214

  Consolacion, Theodora B ^a   Russell, Stephen T ^a   Sue, Stanley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent mental health; Adolescents; Multiple minority status; Racial ethnic minority youths; Sexual minority youths

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC MINORITY YOUTH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JUVENILE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINORITY GROUP; MULTIPLE MINORITY STATUS; MULTIPLE MINORITY STATUS ADOLESCENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RACE; ROMANTIC ATTRACTION; SAME SEX ATTRACTION; SELF ESTEEM; SEX; SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH; SOCIAL STATUS; SUICIDAL THOUGHT; SUICIDE; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; COURTSHIP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOVE; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PREJUDICE; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 3943062910     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.10.3.200     Document Type: Article

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