Kornblith Erica, Green Robert-Jay, Casey Shannon, Tiet Quyen
a California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University , San Francisco , California , USA.
b Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System , Palo Alto , California , USA.
J Lesbian Stud. 2016;20(1):157-73. doi: 10.1080/10894160.2015.1061882.
The current study investigated social support and relationship status (single, dating-but-not-cohabiting, cohabiting, domestic partnership/civil union, married) as predictors of depressive symptoms among lesbian and heterosexual women. The study aimed to determine whether the documented higher rates of depressive symptoms among lesbians compared to heterosexual women could be accounted for by lesbians' reduced access to, or in many cases exclusion from, legalized relationship statuses. The effect of social support from family and social support from friends on depressive symptoms also was examined. Contrary to expectations, results indicated no difference in levels of depressive symptoms among lesbian compared to heterosexual women in this sample. However, regardless of sexual orientation, married women had lower levels of depressive symptoms than unmarried women. Thus, marriage seems to be associated with less depression in lesbian and heterosexual women alike. The interaction of social support and relationship status added to the prediction of depressive symptoms over and above the predictive power of either variable alone, although this effect was small and should be interpreted with caution.
本研究调查了社会支持和恋爱状况（单身、约会但未同居、同居、家庭伴侣关系/民事结合、已婚），以此作为女同性恋者和异性恋女性抑郁症状的预测因素。该研究旨在确定，女同性恋者中抑郁症状发生率高于异性恋女性这一已被记录的情况，是否可以归因于女同性恋者获得合法恋爱状况的机会减少，或者在很多情况下被排除在合法恋爱状况之外。研究还考察了来自家人的社会支持和来自朋友的社会支持对抑郁症状的影响。与预期相反，结果表明，在这个样本中，女同性恋者与异性恋女性的抑郁症状水平没有差异。然而，无论性取向如何，已婚女性的抑郁症状水平都低于未婚女性。因此，婚姻似乎与女同性恋者和异性恋女性较少出现抑郁症状都有关联。社会支持和恋爱状况的交互作用对抑郁症状预测的贡献，超过了这两个变量单独的预测能力，不过这种影响较小，应谨慎解读。
