Results supporting the psychological mediation framework should also be considered in light of the methodological strengths and limitations of the current state of the literature. As indicated in Table 1 and Table 2, support for the three primary hypotheses of the psychological mediation framework has emerged across multiple samples and age groups. In addition, all of the studies listed in Table 1 provided a heterosexual comparison group, most of which were identified using identical sampling procedures, thereby reducing potential confounds related to sampling that have limited many prior studies with sexual minorities (Diamond, 2003). Half of the studies were obtained from community-based and nationally representative datasets, increasing generalizability of the results.
