The association of resilience, perceived stress and predictors of depressive symptoms in sexual and gender minority youths and adults

Psychology and Sexuality

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 116-130

  McElroy, Jane A ^a   Wintemberg, Jenna J ^a   Cronk, Nikole J ^a   Everett, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

depression; LGBT; resilience; sexual and gender minorities; stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938890608     PISSN: 19419899     EISSN: 19419902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2015.1076504     Document Type: Article

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