Across several samples, furries and non-furries did not significantly differ from one another on measures of life satisfaction and self-esteem. Furries did not differ with regard to their self reports of physical health, psychological health, or the quality of their relationships, and were actually more likely to have a stable and coherent sense of identity than non-furries.

It’s worth noting that this lack of difference in well-being occurs despite the fact that most furries
have a history of significant bullying.

Gonna start throwing these behind a CW to not monopolize timeline space.

Summarizing this one: post-con depression is hella real.

Also summarizing this one: a lot of women and non-binary folk describe feeling like there's various forms of ungood gender stuff within furry.

There were also a number of issues in which men felt greater distress than women—men reported feeling a greater need to hide aspects of their identity around furries, felt more pressured into romantic relationships from other furries, and felt more uncomfortable around other furries than women.

The pressured into relationships thing is pretty interesting. I'm not gonna make claims about the exact sociology here but I'm sure y'all can make some guesses.

Okay that's the end of the mega-paper.

There's a TON in here that's interesting but I didn't get into.

relinking:
PDF: https://furscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Fur-Science-Final-pdf-for-Website_2017_10_18.pdf

Browsable: https://furscience.com/research-findings/

I'm gonna look at their longitudinal study now!

Note that this is actually over a pretty short time period -- maybe just one year? -- so.

HUH.

Furries’ non-fursona identity became more masculine after spending about a year in the fandom.

While we did find preliminary evidence that members of the furry fandom reported slightly more homosexual orientations in Wave 2 as compared to Wave 1 (3.81 / 7.00 vs. 3.55 / 7.00, t(92) = 2.03, p = .045), the effect fell to non-significance when we statistically controlled for participant age (F(1,91) = 1.64, p = .20). These findings are preliminary, but may suggest that while homosexuality is more prevalent in older members of the fandom, the effect of spending time in the fandom on sexual orientation may, at most, be a small.

HUHHH.

spending time in the furry fandom had no discernible effect on furries’ felt positivity toward pornography.