Latent Profiles of Disordered Eating Behaviors Associated with Bullying and Mental Health Among Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth
Binge-eating distinguished two patterns of disordered eating behaviors among sexual and gender minority youth; the High Restriction & Binge-eating profile associated with slightly worse social experiences and outcomes. Future prevention and intervention efforts may focus on fostering safer environments for sexual and gender diverse youth through reducing bullying and increasing parental acceptance, as these social experience variables were more strongly associated with disordered eating behaviors profile membership than identity variables.
Authors
- Leah M. Lessard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7518)
- Antonia E. Caba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7760-3964)
- Ryan J. Watson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7824-7714)
- Megan S. Paceley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3482-4628)
- Nora Yanyi Sun
- Lisa A. Eaton
Institutions
- University of Connecticut (US)
- University of Hartford (US)
- Harvard University Press (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Social Psychiatry
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640261417942
- Primary Topic
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00