Cox Nele, Vanden Berghe Wim, Dewaele Alexis, Vinke John
Ghent University, Department of Sociology, Ghent, Belgium.
J LGBT Health Res. 2008;4(4):181-94. doi: 10.1080/15574090802657168.
This article concentrates on the influence of determinants of mental health on a lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) population in Flanders. Our sample is drawn from the Zzzip survey, and contains 2,280 LGBs, of whom 1,565 are men and 715 are women. The traditional social stress model outlines the influence of general stressors on stress (Pearlin, 1989). Meyer (1995) has expanded Pearlin's model to include the concept of minority stress. This study focuses on aspects of personal characteristics and social structural arrangements. Our study confirms the importance of age and education as relevant determinants for mental health. Additionally, although most research establishes sex differences in depression, this study does not find significant differences in depression between men and women. In women, sexual identity is a significant determinant of depressive score, but we do not find the same in men. Finally, both general and minority stressors, especially the internal stressors, are found to have an important effect on depressive outcomes.
本文聚焦于心理健康的决定因素对佛兰德地区女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋（LGB）人群的影响。我们的样本取自Zzzip调查，包含2280名LGB人群，其中1565名男性，715名女性。传统的社会压力模型概述了一般压力源对压力的影响（皮尔林，1989年）。迈耶（1995年）扩展了皮尔林的模型，将少数群体压力的概念纳入其中。本研究关注个人特征和社会结构安排方面。我们的研究证实了年龄和教育作为心理健康相关决定因素的重要性。此外，尽管大多数研究证实了抑郁症存在性别差异，但本研究并未发现男性和女性在抑郁症方面存在显著差异。在女性中，性取向是抑郁得分的一个重要决定因素，但在男性中我们并未发现同样的情况。最后，研究发现一般压力源和少数群体压力源，尤其是内在压力源，对抑郁结果有重要影响。
