性别不符合性和常见的心理健康问题:一个元分析
Yin Xu1, Jinghao Feng1, Qazi Rahman2
1Department of Sociology & Psychology, School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Clinical psychology review
|September 11, 2024
概括
性别不符合性与焦虑,抑郁和自我伤害的增加有关,以及自尊的降低. 这些关联在男性和青少年中更强烈,突出了针对性心理健康干预的需要.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 人们越来越认识到性别不符合性是影响心理健康的一个因素.
- 之前的研究表明,性别不符合性和不良心理结果之间存在潜在的联系.
- 对各种心理健康状况之间这些关联的全面理解至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 对性别不符合性和常见心理健康结果之间的关联进行详尽的元分析.
- 量化这些关联在普遍焦虑症状,抑郁症状,自尊,自我伤害企图和自杀企图中的强度.
- 探索潜在的主持人,包括性别,性别不一致的类型,年龄和性取向.
主要方法:
- 在 PsycInfo,ProQuest Central,EBSCOhost 和 PubMed 搜索了符合条件的研究.
- 包括具有横截面或纵向设计的研究,1975年确定的文章,以及遵循PRISMA指南的精选研究.
- 根据心理健康结果分层进行随机效应元分析,每个结果的总样本大小都很大.
主要成果:
- 较高的性别不符合性与增加的泛性焦虑 (r=0.06),抑郁症状 (r=0.11),自我伤害尝试 (r=0.17) 和自杀尝试 (r=0.14) 相相关.
- 较低的自尊 (r=0.18) 与更高的性别不合规性有关.
- 联系在男性中比女性更强,基于行为的不一致性与基于特征的抑郁症和自尊相比,与抑郁症和自尊相有更强的联系.
- 青少年的抑郁症状相关性比儿童更大;性取向不是一个显著的调节因素.
结论:
- 性别不一致性与常见的心理健康问题有着强烈的关联,在结果和性别之间影响大小各不相同.
- 需要采取干预措施来解决心理健康差异,并增强表现出性别不一致的个体的福祉.
- 进一步的研究可能会探索这些关联在不同人群和发育阶段的细微差别.
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