Agentic and Communal Personality Traits: Their Associations with Depression and Resilience among Transgender Women
Agentic and Communal Personality Traits: Their Associations with Depression and Resilience among Transgender Women
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DOI：
10.1007/s11199-012-0202-y
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发表时间：
2012-11-01
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影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Duran, Ron E.
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作者：
Gonzalez, Cesar A.;Bockting, Walter O.;Duran, Ron E.
研究报告称，跨性别女性的共同特征得以延续，可能是为了确认她们的核心性别身份。在美国，跨性别女性出现明显抑郁症状的可能性是普通人群的近6倍。美国对非变性人的研究表明，代理特质与抑郁症状的关联较少，而对公共特质的研究在其与抑郁指标的关联方面则更为不一致。我们研究的中心目标是在兼职和全职女性性别角色的跨性别女性中研究代理和交流与抑郁和弹性（即个人能力和对自我和生活的接受）之间的联系。美国的参与者是通过线上和线下有目的的抽样招募的。122名跨性别女性（主要是白种人，年龄从22岁到75岁不等）完成了一份基于网络的问卷调查。结果表明，代理和公共特征与抑郁症状的减轻和恢复能力的提高显著相关。弹性的一个组成部分——对自我和生活的接受——介导了代理/公共特质和抑郁之间的关系，然而，对于公共特质，这种模式只在全职生活在女性角色中的跨性别女性中发现。全职生活的跨性别女性与兼职生活的跨性别女性相比，在抑郁症状和弹性的一个组成部分——个人能力——上没有显著差异。与兼职女性角色的跨性别女性相比，全职女性角色的跨性别女性报告了更高水平的代理/社区特征和对自我和生活的接受度。我们的研究结果在跨性别女性心理健康的背景下进行了讨论。
Research reports the perpetuation of communal traits by transgender women, possibly to affirm their core gender identity. Transgender women in the United States are nearly 6 times more likely than the general population to experience significant depressive symptoms. Studies among non-transgender individuals in the United States demonstrate that agentic traits are associated with less depressive symptoms, while studies on communal traits are more inconsistent in their association with indicators of depression. Our study's central objective was to examine the associations of agency and communion with depression and resilience (i.e., personal competence and acceptance of self and life) among transgender women living part-time and full-time in the female gender role. Participants in the United States were recruited through online and offline purposive sampling. One hundred and twenty-two transgender women (primarily Caucasian; ages ranging from 22 to 75) completed a web-based questionnaire. Results indicated that agentic and communal traits were significantly associated with decreased symptoms of depression and increased levels of resilience. One component of resilience - acceptance of self and life - mediated the relationship between agentic/communal traits and depression, however, for communal traits this pattern was only found for transgender women living in the female role full-time. There were no significant differences on depressive symptoms and one component of resilience - personal competence - among transgender women living full-time compared to transgender women living in the female role part-time. Transgender women living full-time in the female gender role reported higher levels of agentic/communal traits and acceptance of self and life compared to those living part-time in the female gender role. Our findings are discussed in the context of mental health among transgender women.