{"doi":"10.1037/sgd0000605","title":"The relationship between serving as a mentor and depressive symptoms among sexual minority men in the MACS healthy aging study.","abstract":"Sexual minority men (SMM) in the US are twice as likely to experience mental health challenges, including depressive symptoms, compared with their heterosexual counterparts. Having a like-mentor, or a sexual minority mentor, is associated with improved mental well-being among SMM mentees. However, few studies have explored the potential benefits to mentors. Using confirmatory factor analysis, we calculated a perceptions of mentoring score that encompasses experiences and beliefs regarding mentoring of SMM from the Healthy Aging Substudy of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study. We used a generalized estimating equations model to assess associations between perceptions of mentoring and clinically significant depressive symptoms adjusted for key covariates; models were also stratified by HIV serostatus. Among 1,246 men aged 40+ years, the strongest agreement was with the statement \"I have encouraged people to be proud of their sexual orientation,\" for which 770 individuals (72%) indicated \"Agree\" or \"Strongly Agree.\" Each unit increase in the mean perceptions of mentoring score was associated with 8% decreased odds of having clinically significant depressive symptoms (adjusted odds ratio: 0.92; 95% CI: 0.85-0.99). We show that SMM reported like-mentoring experiences and had positive mentoring beliefs, and that these were associated with a decreased odds of having depressive symptoms. Encouraging SMM to serve as like-mentors could be a way to counter depressive symptoms among this key population. There is a need for increased research regarding how mentoring programs can best be designed to benefit sexual minority mentees and mentors.","journal":"Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity","year":2022,"id":311739,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9598,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":464137,"name":"Sabina Haberlen","orcid":"0000-0002-9467-3454","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":404157,"name":"Deanna Ware","orcid":"0000-0001-5923-1864","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":464136,"name":"Steven Meanley","orcid":"0000-0002-6098-9733","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":464139,"name":"Mark Brennan‐Ing","orcid":"0000-0001-9071-6659","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":464138,"name":"Andre L. Brown","orcid":"0000-0003-2022-8283","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":404161,"name":"Linda A. Teplin","orcid":"0000-0002-9807-6788","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":445650,"name":"James E. Egan","orcid":"0000-0003-3888-7148","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":270178,"name":"Matthew J. Mimiaga","orcid":"0000-0001-9256-2905","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":404162,"name":"M. Reuel Friedman","orcid":"0000-0001-6191-9799","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":404159,"name":"Michael Plankey","orcid":"0000-0003-4554-7483","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":402353,"name":"Aruna Chandran","orcid":"0000-0002-7411-2852","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":57,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:33:32.327694Z","pmid":"39206120","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}