Depression, hopelessness, suicidality, and related factors in sexual minority and heterosexual adolescents
Depression, hopelessness, suicidality, and related factors in sexual minority and heterosexual adolescents
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-006x.67.6.859
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发表时间：
1999-12-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Heimberg, RG
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作者：
Safren, SA;Heimberg, RG
在本研究中，研究人员检查了与男同性恋、女同性恋和双性恋青少年的抑郁、绝望和自杀倾向相关的因素，并与人口统计学上相似的异性恋青少年进行了比较。性少数青少年报告更大的抑郁，绝望，过去和现在的自杀倾向比异性恋青少年。然而，当控制其他心理社会预测目前的困扰，显着差异之间的2个样本消失。对于过去的自杀倾向分数，性取向的影响减少，但仍然显着，当占其他预测变量。这些结果表明，与性取向相关的环境因素，这可以通过预防和干预工作的目标和改变，在预测这一人群的痛苦发挥了重要作用。
In the present study, the researchers examined factors related to depression, hopelessness, and suicidality in gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents, compared with demographically similar heterosexual adolescents. Sexual minority adolescents reported greater depression, hopelessness, and past and present suicidality than did heterosexual adolescents. However, when controlling for other psychosocial predictors of present distress, significant differences between the 2 samples disappeared. For past suicidality scores, the effects of sexual orientation were reduced, but still significant, when accounting for the other predictor variables. These results suggest that environmental factors associated with sexual orientation, which can be targeted and changed through prevention and intervention efforts, play a major role in predicting distress in this population.