在常见的心理健康问题中比较异性恋,双性恋和同性恋/女同性恋的人:多变量元分析
Yin Xu1, Yidan Ma2, Qazi Rahman3
1Department of Sociology & Psychology, School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Clinical psychology review
|September 10, 2023
概括
与异性恋者相比,无性恋者会出现更高的抑郁症状,但与双性恋者和同性恋者/女同性恋者相比,自我伤害和自杀企图的风险较低. 心理健康差异因结果而异.
科学领域:
- 精神病学和心理健康 精神病学和心理健康
- 性健康和行为.
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 人们越来越认识到性少数群体之间的心理健康差异.
- 无性恋的特点是缺乏性吸引力,在心理健康研究中通常代表性不足.
- 与其他性取向相比,了解无性个体的心理健康风险对于有针对性的干预至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查无性与心理健康结果之间的关联,特别是抑郁症状,自我伤害和自杀企图.
- 为了比较这些精神健康结果在异性恋,异性恋,双性恋和同性恋/女同性恋个体中的风险.
- 进行多变量元分析,在一个大样本中量化这些关联.
主要方法:
- 采用多变量元分析来综合多项研究的数据.
- 包括17个样本的抑郁症状 (N=125,675),5个自我伤害尝试 (N=30,116) 和8个自杀尝试 (N=73,366) 的数据.
- 统计措施包括赫奇斯的抑郁症状和自我伤害和自杀企图的几率比率.
主要成果:
- 异性恋者报告的抑郁症状高于异性恋者 (Hedges' g = -0.44).
- 在异性恋和异性恋个体之间的自我伤害 (OR = 1.11) 或自杀企图风险 (OR = 0.76) 中没有发现显著差异.
- 与双性恋和同性恋/女同性恋相比,无性恋个体的自我伤害和自杀企图风险较低,但抑郁症状水平相似.
结论:
- 虽然与异性恋者相比,无性恋者面临着较高的抑郁症状,但他们的自我伤害和自杀企图的风险低于双性恋者和同性恋者/女同性恋者.
- 双性恋和无性恋个体表现出抑郁症状的最高风险,其次是同性恋/女同性恋个体.
- 心理健康风险的差异在不同的性取向和特定心理健康结果之间有很大差异.
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