“Measurement and analytic vulnerabilities in the study of structural stigma”

Abstract

Two general concerns remain following this updated and corrected study of structural stigma's effect on the premature mortality of sexual minorities. First, there seem to be better and worse ways to measure structural stigma. Scholars should be invested in best-possible measures. Second, remaining questions about measures and expectations suggest more attention be paid to an optimal modeling approach to predicting health outcomes among sexual minorities, one that neither underspecifies nor overspecifies models, but aims instead at better understanding stigma processes in population-based samples, not just searching for its effects.