发育碰撞假设:与三代性少数民族青年进行实证测试
Meg D Bishop1, Jessica N Fish2, Stephen T Russell3
1Department of Family Science, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, USA. mbishop3@umd.edu.
Journal of youth and adolescence
|September 13, 2024
概括
性少数群体的年轻人面临着心理健康挑战,因为早期的身份发展与青春期相冲突. 与LGBT相关的受害,而不是早期的里程碑,显著增加了脆弱性和抑郁症状.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 与异性恋同龄人相比,性少数群体的年轻人患精神健康问题的比例更高.
- 尽管人们对性别多样性的认识越来越大,但持续存在差异的原因尚未完全理解.
- 发育碰撞假设提出,由于增加文化知名度,加速性少数民族身份形成与青少年对耻辱的脆弱性相吻合.
研究的目的:
- 通过检查性少数群体身份发展里程碑,LGBT相关的受害者和抑郁症状之间的关系来测试发育碰撞假说.
- 在三个不同的青少年群体 (1990年代,2000年代,2010年代) 中调查这些关系的世代差异.
主要方法:
- 分析了三组二级数据集,其中包括1312名性少数群体青少年 (平均年龄17.34岁).
- 检查年龄的身份发展里程碑,与LGBT相关的受害频率和抑郁症状.
- 利用路径分析来建模这些变量之间的间接和直接影响.
主要成果:
- 最近群体中的青少年报告了早期的身份发展里程碑,但与LGBT相关的受害率相似.
- 早些时候的身份里程碑间接地与增加的抑郁症状有关,由LGBT相关的受害者介导.
- 早些时候的自我认同和性少数民族身份的披露与较少的抑郁症状直接相关.
结论:
- 这些发现为发育碰撞假设提供了初步支持.
- 与LGBT相关的受害者是增加性少数群体年轻人心理健康脆弱性的关键因素.
- 干预措施应侧重于减少受害,以减轻心理健康差异.
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