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Report
Same-Sex Legal Marriage and Psychological Well-Being
Findings from the California Health Interview Survey
December 2012
This report examines whether same-sex marriage was associated with nonspecific psychological distress among LGB adults and whether it had the potential to offset mental health disparities between LGB and heterosexual people. It appeared in the American Journal of Public Health in February 2013.
Highlights
Research demonstrates that LGB people have worse mental health outcomes than their heterosexual counterparts.
Same-sex married LGB people were significantly less distressed than LGB people not in a legally recognized relationship.
Married heterosexuals had the lowest psychological distress, and LGB people not in legalized relationships had the highest.