Check out “Outness and social–emotional adjustment among asexual and demisexual adolescents” which has just been published in Journal of LGBT Youth!

The study ​​aimed to compare asexual youth and demisexual adolescents on outness and social–emotional adjustment. Findings revealed that asexual adolescents were out to significantly fewer people and experienced fewer depressive symptoms than demisexual adolescents. Also, asexual adolescents reported lower outness, greater depressive symptoms, and lower self-esteem compared to allosexual SMY. Greater outness was associated with higher self-esteem across asexual and allosexual SMY.

To read more about this study, you can read the full article here. To view all of the lab’s publications, see our Publications page.

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