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- Title
Sexual Minority Status, Bullying Exposure, Emotion Regulation Difficulties, and Delinquency Among Court-Involved Adolescent Girls.
- Authors
Barnett, Andrew P.; Houck, Christopher D.; Barker, David; Rizzo, Christie J.
- Abstract
Sexual minority adolescent girls are overrepresented in the justice system. This study used the minority stress model and psychological mediation framework to investigate a pathway for this disparity among court-involved girls ages 14–18 (N = 226; mean age: 15.58; 48% sexual minority). The hypotheses were that sexual minority status would be associated with delinquency, bullying exposure would be associated with delinquency indirectly via emotion regulation difficulties, and the relationship between bullying exposure and emotion regulation difficulties would be stronger for sexual minority girls. Bullying exposure and emotion regulation difficulties were not related. Sexual minority status was related to delinquency, and emotion regulation difficulties mediated this relationship. The findings suggest interventions to build emotion regulation skills may reduce delinquency for sexual minority girls.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGY of teenage girls; SEXUAL minority women; BULLYING; EMOTION regulation; JUVENILE delinquency; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; SELF-control; ATTITUDES toward sex; SEXUAL minorities; AFFECTIVE disorders; TEENAGERS' conduct of life; WOMEN'S health; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 2022, Vol 51, Issue 3, p471
- ISSN
0047-2891
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10964-021-01542-9