researcher, psychologist, professor
Margaret Rosario’s research focuses on identity: its development and implications for health and other adaptive outcomes. Her research has primarily centered on lesbian, gay and bisexual young people undergoing sexual identity development. The relations between stress and sexual identity development to health and other adaptive outcomes are of interest, as are other factors associated with these relations. In addition, she is interested in the determinants of sexual orientation and the intersection of multiple identities. For her research, she has been honored with the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, as well as the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award and Distinguished Contribution to Ethnic Minority Issues Award from Division 44 of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Sex Research and Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health, and a member of the editorial boards of Archives of Sexual Behavior and the American Journal of Community Psychology.