Generations: A Study of the Life and Health of LGB People in a Changing Society, United States, 2016-2019

The Generations study is a five-year study designed to examine health and well-being across three generations of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGB). The study explored identity, stress, health outcomes, and health care and services utilization among LGBs in three generations of adults who came of age during different historical contexts. This collection includes baseline, wave 1, and wave 2 data collected as part of the Generations study. The study aimed to assess whether younger cohorts of LGBs differed from older cohorts in how they viewed their LGB identity and experienced stress related to prejudice and everyday forms of discrimination, as well as whether patterns of resilience differed between different LGB cohorts. Additionally, the study sought to examine how differences in stress experience affected mental health and well-being, including depressive and anxiety symptoms, substance and alcohol use, suicide ideation and behavior, and how younger LGBs utilized LGB-oriented social and health services, relative to older cohorts. In wave 2, respondents were re-interviewed approximately one year after completion of the baseline (wave 1) survey. Only respondents who participated in the original sample of participants were surveyed at wave 2 (i.e., the enhancement oversample was not included in the longitudinal design of this study). In wave 3, respondents were re-interviewed approximately one year after the completion of the wave 2 survey. Demographic variables collected as part of this study include questions related to age, education, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, gender identity, income, employment, and religiosity.

《世代研究》是一项为期五年的研究，旨在探究不同历史时期成长起来的女同性恋者、男同性恋者和双性恋者（LGB）的健康状况与福祉。研究内容涉及LGB群体在三代成年人中的身份认同、压力、健康结果以及医疗保健和服务的利用情况。本数据集包括《世代研究》的基线数据、第一波次数据和第二波次数据。研究旨在评估较年轻的LGB群体在如何看待自己的LGB身份和经历与偏见以及日常歧视相关的压力方面，是否与较年长的群体存在差异，以及不同LGB群体之间的韧性模式是否有所不同。此外，研究还旨在考察压力体验的差异如何影响心理健康和福祉，包括抑郁和焦虑症状、物质和酒精使用、自杀意念和行为，以及较年轻的LGB群体相对于较年长的群体如何利用LGB导向的社会和健康服务。在第二波次中，受访者在大基线调查（第一波次）完成后大约一年后进行了重新访谈。只有原始样本的参与者被纳入第二波次的调查（即，增强样本未包含在本研究的纵向设计中）。在第三波次中，受访者在第二波次调查完成后大约一年后进行了重新访谈。本研究收集的人口统计学变量包括与年龄、教育、种族、民族、性认同、性别认同、收入、就业和宗教信仰相关的问题。