{"id":6288,"date":"2025-05-03T21:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T13:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:38:31","slug":"how-does-social-media-support-and-challenge-the-mental-health-of-lgbtq-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/uncategorized\/6288\/how-does-social-media-support-and-challenge-the-mental-health-of-lgbtq-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"How does social media support and challenge the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\nLGBTQ+ people often experience more challenges when it comes to well-being and mental health (Berger et al., 2022). The term LQBTQ+ includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning individuals, as well as anyone whose sexual orientation or gender identity is different from the traditional norms (Russell et al., 2023). For many LGBTQ+ youth, social media platforms can provide a safe space to interact with others and escape traditional gender expectations (Berger et al., 2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/uncategorized\/6288\/how-does-social-media-support-and-challenge-the-mental-health-of-lgbtq-youth\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGBTQ+ people often experience more challenges when it comes to well-being and mental health (Berger et al., 2022). The term LQBTQ+ includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning individuals, as well as anyone whose sexual orientation or gender identity is different from the traditional norms (Russell et al., 2023). For many LGBTQ+ youth, social media platforms can provide a safe space to interact with others and escape traditional gender expectations (Berger et al., 2022). &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,1],"tags":[1303,1304,1779,1325,1310,1780],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","category-ioa","category-uncategorized","tag-communities","tag-identity","tag-lgbtq","tag-mental-health","tag-social-media","tag-youth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6291,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}