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Depressive Symptoms Among Same-Sex Oriented Young Men: Importance of Reference Group

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Acknowledgments

This research used data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth). No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis. Use of this acknowledgment requires no further permission from the persons named.

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  1. Human Development, Cornell University, MVR Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

    Ritch C. Savin-Williams, Kenneth M. Cohen & Gerulf Rieger

  2. Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA

    Kara Joyner

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Savin-Williams, R.C., Cohen, K.M., Joyner, K. et al. Depressive Symptoms Among Same-Sex Oriented Young Men: Importance of Reference Group. Arch Sex Behav 39, 1213–1215 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-010-9658-4

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