To obtain a better understanding of the factor structure underlying these six variables, a PCA with a varimax rotation was conducted on all of these measures. The PCA revealed two factors with eigenvalues above 1.0 with the following loadings: (a) Social Support (.66), Community Connectedness
(.67), and Outness (.76); and (b) Depression (.89), Perceived Stress (.85), and Anxiety (.90). Thus, the scores loading on the first factor were standardized and averaged to form a Social Integration composite that was used in subsequent analysis. Higher scores on this composite reflected higher levels of support, connectedness with the LGBT community, and level of outness with family and others. Scores loading on the second factor were standardized and averaged to create a Psychological Distress composite that was used in subsequent analyses; higher scores on this composite indicated higher levels of depression, perceived stress, and anxiety. Because the scores averaged for each factor came from different questionnaires with varying response scales, each scale score was first standardized before creating the factor composite scores, resulting in factor scores that have a mean of zero. The Social Integration and Psychological Distress factors were significantly and negatively correlated, r(133)=-.44, p