The Relationship Between Family Acceptance-Rejection and Transgender Youth Psychosocial Functioning

摘要

Objective: Transgender youth have a high risk of adverse mental health outcomes. Family acceptance may play a protective role in transgender youth's psychosocial adjustment; however, studies have largely examined acceptance independent from gender identity, averaged across family members, and in extreme examples (i.e., high acceptance or high rejection). Grounded in interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory, this study documents transgender youth's experiences of family acceptance-rejection across family members, including siblings, and investigates the relationship between family acceptance-rejection and youth psychosocial functioning.