Poorer LGBTQ+ people are hit harder by anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes in their countries, study finds - LGBTQ Nation

"A study from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and UNAIDS, published in December, establishes a link between LGBTQ+-phobia and unfavorable socio-economic conditions by analyzing data from 153 countries in the Global LGBTQ+ Happiness Survey, an international review that gathered data from 82,354 participants worldwide. The new research reveals that family rejection is the most damaging form of LGBTQ+ prejudice on the well-being of those affected."

"Individual economic precarity, regardless of the country participants reported from, significantly interacted with the negative association between homophobia and participants' well-being, the authors write. But the weight of a country's homophobic climate on well-being was nearly halved for economically secure participants compared with those economically deprived, meaning that wealthier LGBTQ+ people in anti-LGBTQ+ environments were able to escape a significant part of the hit to their well-being."

Data from 153 countries and 82,354 participants in the Global LGBTQ+ Happiness Survey were analyzed. Economic status significantly affects the emotional well-being of LGBTQ+ people and compounds the effects of anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice. Family rejection emerges as the most damaging form of prejudice for well-being. Individual economic precarity amplifies the negative association between homophobia and well-being, and that correlation intensifies in countries with greater economic inequality. Participants in the Middle East and North Africa reported the lowest subjective well-being, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Structural and family-level homophobia are clear negative indicators of LGBTQ+ well-being.

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