A second longitudinal, community-based study also offers evidence for the psychological mediation framework. In this racially/ethnically diverse sample of over 1,000 adolescents, sexual minority youth experienced greater emotion dysregulation, a latent variable comprised of rumination (and emotional awareness). This increased emotion dysregulation accounted for the higher rates of depression and anxiety among the sexual minority youth, controlling for baseline symptom levels (Hatzenbuehler, McLaughlin, & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2008).
