RT Article
T1 Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Substance Use: Using the Social Structure-Social Learning Model to Explore Drug Use in the LGBTQ+ Community
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 70
IS 4
SP 1304
OP 1331
A1 Stogner, John
A2 Rukus, Joseph
A2 Webber, Wesley B.
A2 Cramer, Robert J.
A2 Miller, Bryan Lee
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1883155177
AB Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ+) community are disproportionately affected by illicit substance use, yet sexual orientation and gender identity are largely omitted from criminology frameworks. LGBTQ+ identity is incorporated into Akers? Social Structure-Social Learning (SSSL) model to suggest that existing disparate substance use patterns may be attributed to variation in substance-related definitions, peer models, and reinforcement. Data from 2,349 young adults were used to estimate structural equations models. LGBTQ+ respondents reported greater substance use than peers. Consistent with theoretical expectations, this relationship was fully mediated by social learning constructs. This study justifies incorporating sexual orientation and gender identity into the SSSL model and suggests peer-based substance use interventions are particularly influential within the LGBTQ+ community.
K1 LGBTQ+
K1 Drug use
K1 Gender Identity
K1 Sexual Orientation
K1 Social learning
K1 social structure-social learning
DO 10.1177/00111287221122757