Study protocol for the Rainbow Austrian Longitudinal Family (RALF) study: a longitudinal, multi-method, multi-rater investigation of risk and resilience factors in Austrian LGBTQ+ parent families.
Journal:
BMC psychology
Published Date:
May 26, 2025
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Research on LGBTQ+ parent families is evolving to include a growing range of family systems, identities, methodologies, and topics. However, studies that examine minority-specific risk and resilience factors and their associations with within-family processes remain scarce, particularly outside a US-American context. Addressing these research gaps quantitatively poses challenges for researchers, because traditional modelling techniques based on (generalized) linear models are not ideally suited to capture the complexity and intersectionality of family experiences. Within this study protocol, we introduce the Rainbow Austrian Longitudinal Family (RALF) study. Its main goal is to comprehensively investigate general and minority-specific factors that affect the well-being of LGBTQ+ parent family members in Austria.
